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SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY

VOLUME LIII

MACFARLANE'S
GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

VOL, III.

Maech 1908

GEOGRAPHICAL
COLLECTIONS

RELATING TO SCOTLAND

MADE BY

WALTER MACFARLANE

Edited from Macfarlane's Transcript
in the Advocates^ Library

BY

SIR ARTHUR MITCHELL, K.C.B.

H.A., H.D., LL.D.,
AND

JAMES TOSHACH QLARK

tATE KEEPER OF THE ADVOOATEg' LIBRARY

IN THREE VOLUMES
VOLUME m

EDINBURGH

Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable

for the Scottish History Society

1908

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PREFACE

In Volume iii. of Macfarlane^s Geographical Collections re-
lating to Scotland there are several articles that cannot be
described as either Geographical or Topographical. In this
respect Volume iii. differs from Volume i. and also, though
to a smaller extent, from Volume ii. It differs also from the
second volume in that the articles, with only one or two
exceptions, are all in English.

The larger part of this third volume was transcribed for
Mac&rlane by John Taitt, who was also the transcriber of
Volumes i. and ii. The concluding part of Volume iii. — viz.,
from the History of the Clans, p. 259, to the end — was done
by another transcriber whose name we do not know. That he
was very inferior to Taitt as a transcriber is shown by the
abundance of errors in that part of the transcript done by
him. As long €is Taitt acted as transcriber the manuscript
has, as in the case of Volumes i. and ii., been closely followed.
But with regard to the portion done by his successor, it was
thought desirable to correct as far as possible what clearly
appeared to be errors in transcribing. To a large extent these
were known with certainty through collation with the originals
from which he appears to have copied.

In Jo. Ben''8 Description of Orkney (p. 802), which has a
special interest from its having been written as far back as
1529, the Latin in the Macfarlane manuscript was found |;o
have errors in certain parts, and it was decided to follow some^

viii PREFACE

what closely the print of the Description as given in Barry ''s
History of Orkney ^ 1805. Errors, however — chiefly gramma-
tical — also occur in Barry's print, and these too have been
corrected, but no change has been mcule that affects the sense.

The translation of Ben's Orkney (p. 318) here given formerly
belonged to Captain F. W. L. Thomas, and is now in the
possession of Sir Arthur Mitchell. The translator, whose
name is not known, follows the Latin very literally, but there
is sometimes a quaintness about the phraseology that gives
it a certain charm.

After the text of Macfarlane, with the above translation of
Jo. Ben's Description of Orkney, had been printed ofi^, it wa?
discovered that another old translation existed, and was in
the possession of the Rev. Thomas Mathewsou, Lerwick. It
is headed as having been made by * W. Henderson.' It
begins with the date 14th October 181^, and each day's work,
as the translation proceeded, has its own date on the margin,
till the end is reached on the 17th October. It has the looH
of an .original document and not of a transcript. There is no
indication of where the Liatin existed of which it is a transla-
tion. The Note in English on the Husbandry of Orkney, that
is given both in Barry and in Sir James Balfour's transcript in
tlie Advocates' Library, is absent.

' At first the translator was accepted as being the William
Henderson of Bardister, who gave lai-gc assistance to Hibbert
in preparing his History of Shetland (1822), who was a man
of considerable culture, and who, according to Mr. Francis J.
Grant, died unmarried at Leith in 1824. The Rev. Thomas
Mathewson, however, says that he was married but lived apart
from his wife; that he had two sons, one of whom was called
William and was buried at Ollaberry ; and that the transla-
tion was made by this son and is in his handwriting. The
date does not exclude either view. The script of the elder
{ienderson, Hibbert's friend, has been seen, through the kind-
ness of his descendant Mr. A. Shaw Mellor, and it is found to

PREFACE he

be not unlike that of the translation, but there is no such
close correspondence as to remove all uncertainty.

This Henderson Translation differs considerably from the
Translation that came to Sir Arthur Mitchell from the Collec-
tions, of Captain Thomas, being less literal and in better
English, but there, is np difference that amounts to a differ-
ence cf sense or matter. .

A translation of Jo. Ben's Description of Orkney is probably
tot the first time given in print in this volume. The Descrip-
tion appears in print, but in Latin only, in the first edition
of Barry 1805, in Head rick's edition of 1806, and in the
Kirkwall edition published by Peace in 1867; but in the last
the Note jn English about the Husbandry of Orkney, after-
wards specially referred to, is disjoined, though it is stated
that it occurs at the end of the Deacriptio.

It is not yet known who Jo. Ben was. The name, which is
once given as Johannia Ben^ has been accepted by some as a
contraction for John Bellenden, the translator of Boece, and the
dates may be regarded as suiting. But this is nothing more
than a guess. Bellenden, as secretary of the Earl of Angus,
was implicated in the detaining of James V. at Falkland
against the Monarch's will, and he may have fled to Orkney
in 1528 and been resident there in 1529, but of this there is
no proof.

From internal evidence, the writer of the Descriptio seems
to have been a Priest, but, if he was an ordinary Priest serving
an Orkney chapel, it is scarcely probable that he would have
written Latin with freedom, nor is it likely that a settled
Priest would have been able to visit so many of the islands.

J. R. Tudor in his Orkneys and Shetland^ 1883, p. 672,
gives a list of his authorities, and among them he has: —
^Bellenden John, Descriptio . . . per me^ Jo. Ben . . .'
witii a reference to Headrick's edition of Barry's Orkney
(1808), but Headrick nowhere says that Jo, Ben stands for
John Bellenden.

X PREFACE

Barry himself does not appear to have had any doubt as to
the full name being Ben. Writing of Deemess, he says,— * To
confirm this tradition we have the decided testimony of an
-author who himself lived [15S9] for some time at least in this
country."* The footnote to this is : * Ben. MSS., Adv. Lib.
Edin.' See Barry's * Orkney,' 1805, p. 288.

It has been suggested that Jo. Ben may stand for
John Benston or Beinston, who was appointed co-adjutor to
Edward Bishop of Orkney on the 24th of April 1524, but
it is recorded that he died on the 9th of April 1526, when
his successor was appointed — that is, three years before the
Deacriptio was written (see Mciziere Brady's Episcopal Succes-
sion, vol. i. pp. 150-151). Benston wa^ buried in St. Salvator's
College, St. Andrews (Hist MSS. Commission^ 5th Report^
Ap. p. 639). His name is not in Keith's Catalogue.

There was a Bishop James Ben, Bene, Bane, Bennet or
Biort in Scotland (see Dictionary of National Biography), but
he cannot be the author of the Descriptio as he died in 1832.
The name Be^i, however, is thus shown to be very old in
Scotland, as old probably as the occurrence of men with Fair
Hair where Gaelic was the language.

The following is Sibbald's entry of Jo. Ben's Descriptio, at
p. 25 of his undated Repertory : — * John Ben. John Bane a
resident in the Orkney Isles, anno 1529 wrott a description
of them in Latine MS. extant one sheet and a halfe.'
This mention of the size seems to indicate that Sibbald had
seen the original, but of course the size may have been
reported to him.

There is a copy of the Description in the Sibbald MSS. in
the Advocates' Library, with the press-mark SS.3.20, which
is believed to be a transcript in the handwriting of Sir
Robert Sibbald.

In 1711 Sibbald published The Description of Orkney and
Zetland (Edin. FoL). Only four pages, written by Robert
Monteith, 1683, are given to Orkney. Jo. Ben is not men-

PREFACE xi

tioned. Nor is he mentioned by Sibbald in his Admonitio de
Atlante Scotico (1683), when giving a list of the Manuscripts
and Prints that he had collected to aid him in preparing his
projected Scottish Atlas. It is not known, therefore, at
what time Jo. Ben^s Descripiio became known to Sibbald, but
it is almost certain that it was not known to him in 1683.

The Descripiio by Ben also appears in the Balfour MSS. in
the Advocates^ Library, with the press-mark 33.2.3. This
transcript appears to be in Sir James Balfour'^s own hand-
writing.

There are thus in the Advocates'* Library two transcripts of
Jo. Ben in manuscript. One of them, said to be in the
script of Sibbald, does not contain the short additional Note
in English Of the Hiisbandrt/ used by the Orchadians that
is given by Barry as appearing at the end of the MS. in the
Library from which he copied. Barry, therefore, did not
copy from this Sibbald transcript. But he might have copied
from the Balfour transcript, so far at least as the Note referred
to is concerned, for Balfour gives it at the end. Barry, how-
ever, says that the script of the Note in the MS. from which he
copied is ^ plaiply ^ by ^ another hand,^ that is, it is not written
by the hand that wrote the body of the MS. This, however,
is not the case in the Balfour transcript. There is no change
of handwriting there. It may be held to follow that Barry
did not copy from either of these two transcripts, and that a
third Jo. Be7i in MS. existed when Barry wrote, and perhaps
still exists somewhere — in the Advocates' Library, or possibly
elsewhere. If so, it might, if seen, disclose something that
would lead to the identification of Jo. Ben.

It is possible that the Hev. Dr. Barry, when writing his
History of Orkney (1805), was allowed to take home with him
on loan, out of the Advocates' Library, the original Jo. Ben,
and that he may have failed to return it. This would be
impossible in times at all recent, but in the early years of last
century it is thought that such a thing could have happened.

xii PREFACE

We know, indeed, thai the Jo. Ben MS. was regarded by
Daly ell as having recently disappeared from the Library when
he wrote his Darker Superstitions of Scotkmd in 1835. At
p. 83 he says: 'This work [Jo. Ben's MS.] has been lost within
4 or 5 years.**

In 1835 James Maidraent printed thirty-five copies of Poe^i-
cal Descriptions of Orkney (1652), which he found in a volume
of Miscellaneous MS. Poems in the Advocates' Library with
the press-mark Jac. 5.7.S6 ; but that volume is not now in the
Library, though the volumes preceding and following it are
there. The volume contsinrng Poetical Descriptions of Orkney
might perhaps contain descriptions of Orkney that were not
in verse, and among these may have been the original
Description by Jo. Ben, but we have no knowledge now of
whether this Description was or was not in the missing
volume.

Barry made great use of Ben in compiling his ^i^tor^. Xh^
1529 Description was by no means a curio to him. It was a
mnch quoted source of information in his hands. A transcript
of course would have given him the information he wanted,
but he may have obtained the original on loan. In that case
it may have been lost in Orkney.

It lately became known that a manuscript copy of Jo. Ben
in Latin had been offered for sale in May last in Stromness, and
was described as not looking modem. A successful effort has
been made to get possession of this copy. An examination of
it shows that its script is not that of the early part of the six-
teenth century. Though clearly not recent, it need not be more
than a hundred years old. It contains the Note in English
on Orkney Husbandry, wJiich the Descriptio copied by Barry
also contained. There is not the slightest evidence anywhere
about it that it had ever been in the Advocates' Library. The
differences between it and Barry'^s print are numerous, but not
of an important nature. Altogether it cannot be regarded as
the missing Jo. Ben MS., but it is just possible that it may be

PREFACE xiii

a transcript prepared for Barry, in which case the original
would not have been given to him on loan.

It does not appear that more can^ be said about Jo. Ben.
Indeed all that is known has been said. Perhaps the attention
here drawn to this vety early Description of a part of Scot-
land may lead to some additknial knowledge regarding it. The
mere earliness of the Description gives it much interest. The
date on all the known transcripts and prints is 1529, and it
has never been suggested that this is erroneous. Its interest,
however, largely depends on its character as a record of obser-
vation, set out in homely Latin in as formal and systematic a
fiuhion as if it had been written in the twentieth instead of
the sixteenth century. Dean Donald Monroes Description.of
thee Western Isles of Scotland^ 1549, is its only rival in date
and character. All other early topographical accounts of
Scotland are little more than chance occurrences in writings
having a quite different purpose. After Monro comes Nicolay
d^Arferville's Navigation round Scotland with James V., 1583 ;
then comes Fynes Moryson, 1598; and then Timothy Pont,
1604-8, who made * The First Topographical S^irvey of Scotland''
(C. 6. Cash, Scottish Geographical Magazine^ vol. xvii., p. 399,
1901), and who was the widest traveller in Scotland that has
lived, and the best single original delineator of its topography
that it has ever had.

It is no mean distinction to head the list of Scottish Topo-
graphers. Jo. Ben may be called the earliest, and Tim Pont
the richest and best — odd names both.

For the Descriptions given in this volume, Macfarlane, as in
the case of the previous volumes (see p. vi, vol. ii.), has been
largely indebted to Sibbald. With the exception of one or
two articles, the whole of this volume is practically taken from
the Sibbald MSS. 33.5.15 in the Advocates' Library.

xiv PREFACE

Grouping of Contributioks.
List of Articles the Authors of which are named.

A short Relation » . • by Mr. Matthew Mackaile. (P. 1.)

Fragment of a letter . . . by Mr. Matthew Mackaile. (P. 7.)

Current of the Tides about the Orcades, by Mr. Matthew
Mackaile. (P. 10.)

Extracts of Letters, by Mr. Matthew Mackaile. (Pp. 11-13.)

Extract of a Letter, by Dr. Miln. (P. 15.)

Extmcts of Several Letters, by Sir George Mackenzie of
Tarbat. (P. 17.)

Some Hints for the Horticulture of Scotland, by Dr. J. BeaL
(P. 20.)

Observations made in Scotland, by Sir George Mackenzie
ofTarbat. (P. 21.)

The Making of Malt in Scotland, by Sir Robert Moray.
(P. 26.)

A Description of the Island of Shetland, by Captain John
Smith. (P. 60.)

Account of the Law and Government of Scotland, by Sir
George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh. (P. 70.)

Answers to Queries concerning Caithness, by Mr. William
Dundas. (P. 82.)

Survey of the Town of Aberdeen, by Bailie Skene. (P. 87.)

Epigrams on the Town of Aberdeen and Elogies of other
Burrows of Scotland, by Dr. Arthur Johnston. (P. 91.)

Cure of Mad People at the Well of Struthill, by Mr.
Forsyth. (P. 91.)

Citations Concerning the Scots out of Roman Authors, by
Lord Newbaith. (P. 92.)

Account anent Galloway, by Provost Euart. (P. 98.)

Curiosities of Nature, by Lady Mary Gordon. (P. 93.)

Relation anent Corstorphine, by Lord Newbaith. (P. 98.)

Observations of the High Water at Leith, by Captain
Collins. (P. 98.)

PREFACE XV

Tbe Sheriifdom of Renfrew, by Schaw of Greenock and

Mr, James Montgomerie of Weitlands. (P. 125.)

The Sheriffdom of Wigtoun, by Sir Andrew Agnew and
David Dumbar, of Baildoon, (P. 127.)

The Sheriffdom of Lanark, by Sir Wm, Baillie of Lamington
and Wm. Baillie of Carphin. (P. 181.)

The Sheriffdom of Roxburgh, by Sir Wm. Scot of Harden
and Andrew Ker of Sinlaws. (P. 135.)

The Sheriffdom of Selkirk, by Wm, Eliot of Stobbs and
Walter Scott of Arkiltoun. (P. 1 38.)

Account of the Curiosities at Dumfries, by Dr. Archibald.
(P. 186.) ' •

Description of Stormont, Gourie and parts of Angus, by
J, A. (P. 221.)

The Sheriffdom of Mems, by Mr. John Keith. (P. 286.)

Information anent the Shire of Forfar, by [John] Ouchter-
lony of Guinde. (P. 244.)

A Description of Zetland, by John Marr, (P, 248.)

Two Latin Monuments in Glasgow College Library, by
Mr. W. Hamilton of Orbeston. (P. 255.)

Genealogies of the Chief Clans of the Isles, by Dean Monro*
(P. 259.)

Description of the Western Isles, by Dean Monro. (P. 262.)

Description of the Orkney Islands, by Jo. Ben. (P. 802.)

Anonymous Articles, the Authoes of which aee given
elsewhere*

Ode to the Earl of Errol (p. 18), given in by Mr. Alexr*
Hay, Apothecary at Edinburgh (Sibbald MS., 38.5.15).

Account of Hirta and Rona (p. 28) given to Sir Robert
Sibbald by Sir Geo. Mackenzie of Tarbat (Misc. Scotka^
voL ii.).

Account of Mines and Minerals of Scotland (p. 80) by
Stephen Atkinson (Bannatyne Club, 1825).

xvi PREFACE

Another Memorandum of the M merals of Scotland (p. 55)
by Robert Seton (Cochran-Patrick, Records of Minings p, xxii).

Account of Sutherland. (P. 67.) Given in by Mr. Di%Iass,
a Gentleman (Sibbald MS., 33.5.15).

The Burgh of Haddington. (P. 65.) ' From the Magistrates
y'of ' (Sibbald, as above).

With regard to the other articles which make up this
volume, although very ^considerable search has been made, the
authorship of them has not been discovered.

I^TST OK DATED ARTICLES.

Mackaile s Letters to Sir Robert Sibbald. (Pp. 7 and 11.)
February and March 1683.

• Mackaile's Account of a Woman that was seven years with
Child, and his Observations on Cattle Disease in Caithness.
(P. 12.) March 1683.

Miln's Letter to Sir Andrew Balfour. (P. 15.) March 1683.

Sir Geo. Mackenzie's Letters to Mr. James Gregory. (P. 17.)
1675.

Bears Hints on the Horticulture of Scotland. (R 20.)
1675,

Sir George Mackenzie s Letter to Mr. James Gregory.
<P.21.) 1675.

Letter concerning a man of a strange imitating nature.
<P. 24.) February 167f

Sir Robt. Moray's Account of making of Malt. (P. 25.)
1678,

Captain John Smith's description of Shetland. (P. 60.)
1670.

Skene's. Survey of the Town of Aberdeen. (P. 87.) 1685.

Forsyth's relation regarding the well of Struthhill. (P. M.)
March 1668.

The Sheriffdom of Roxburgh. (P. 136.) December 1649.

PREFACE xvii

The Sheriffdom of Selkirk. (P. 138.) December 1649.
Latin Monuments. (P. 266.) 1696.
Monro's Western Isles. (P. 262.) 1549.
Ben's Orkney. (P. 302.) 1529.

Articles printed elsewhere.

A short relation (p. 1) in Appendix to Barry's Orkney^
1867, pp. 404-409.

Hirta and Rona (p. 28) in Dean Monro's Western hks^
1774; also in Miscellanea Scotica, vol. ii.

Account of Mines and Minerals (p. 30) in Atkinson's His-
tory of Gold Mynes in Scotland^ 1619. Bannatyne Club, 1826.

Memorandum of Minerals (p. 64) in Cochran - Patrick's
Early Records of Mining in Scotland^ 1878, p. xxvi, and in
Atkinson's History ^ Appendix No. iii.

Another Memorandum (p. 56) in Cochran-Patrick, p. xxii,
and in Atkinson's History^ Appendix No. i.

Description of Shetland (p. 60) in Captain John Smith's
England's Improvement Revived, 1670.

Law and Government of Scotland (p. 70) in Sir George
Mackenzie's Institutes, First printed, 1684.

Genealogies of the Chief Clans (p. 269), along with Dean
Monro's Western Isles. Edinr. 1774.

Monro's Western Isles, (P. 262.) Several times printed.
Edinburgh 1774 and 1806 ; Glasgow 1884.

Ben's Orkney (p. 302), in Appendix to Barry's Orkney
Islands. 1867.

The Husbandrie used by the Orchadians (p. 313), in
Appendix to Bany's Orkney Islands^ 1867, p. 402.

Remarks on some of the Separate Descriptions.
Letter wrttten from Aberdeen. (P. 24.)

In the Account of * a man of a strange imitating nature,'
as printed in the Philosophical Transactions for the year

b

xviii PREFACE

1677, an additional paragraph, extending to ten lines, occurs
between the two paragraphs given in this volume.

Mines and Minerals in Scotland. (P. 80.)

This Account of Mines and Minerals in Scotland, from a MS.
belonging to Colonel Borthwick, lias evidently been copied by
Macfarlane from the Sibbald MS., 38.5.16, pp. 27-50. Sibbald
again, in copying from the MS. given to him by Colonel Borth-
wick, appears to have confined himself to extracting only such
parts of the Account as relate to Minerals found in Scotland,
and the mining operations carried on there, leaving out the
parts referring to mining in England, etc. The original MS.
(38.2.6, Adv. Lib.) has for its title * The Discoverie and His-
toric of the Mynes in Scotland, by Mr. Atcheson, who wrought
in them.^ It is a folio of fifty leaves, and was given to Sibbald
in 1683, when he was collecting * Papers and informations in
order to the Description of Scotland.** This MS. was printed
in full by the Bannatyne Club in 1825, the author^s name
being there given as * Stephen Atkinson.**

Sir Bevis Bulmer. (P. 44.) He * penned a Book of all his
Acts, Works, and Devices. He named it Bulmer's Skill ; it
was written, not printed.' It does not appear that this work
was ever printed, and if the MS. still exists, its place of deposit
has not been discovered.

Knight of the Golden Mines. (Pp. 45, 46.) With regard to
this scheme for carrying on the adventure, the following
paragraph from the preface to Atkinson may fitly be quoted :
' This measure (the opening of the Secrets of the Earth — the
Gold Mines of Scotland) was to be accomplished only by " his
Majesty's Plott,'' communicated in an audience to Sir Bevis,
to move twenty-four gentlemen of England, of sufficient land,
to disburse ^^300 each by creating them " for ever Knights
of the Golden Mynes, or Golden Knights " — a truly notable
device worthy of King James.**

PREFACE xix

It appears (p. 47) that only one knight, Sir John Cleypool,
was created, *for he had ventured with Mr. Bulmer before
-500 lib. sterl. at the Gold Mines in Scotland.**

Memokakdum of the Minerals. (P. 64.)

The two last paragraphs of this Memorandum are not given
"by Cochran-Patrick in his Records of Mining in Scotland.

Another Memorandum. (P. 55.)

According to Cochran-Patrick in his Records qf Mining in
Scotland^ this Memorandum ^was written sometime during
the reign of James v., and is entitled Ane Memorandum left
by Robert Seton, commonly designed of Mexico, anent the
Metals of Scotland, especially gold.**

Shetland. (P. 60.)

This account of Shetland is printed in England's Improve-
ment revived^ in Six Books^ by Captain John Smith, London,
1670. The sixth book of this work contains a ^ Description
of the Islands of Orkney and Shetland with the manner and
way of the Hollanders fishing and trading in those seas and
islands.' The description of Shetland begins at p. 253.
The last two paragraphs as given by Macfarlane, while
conveying the same information, are somewhat differently
-expressed in Captain Smith'^s book.

Law and Government of Scotland. (P. 70.)

The first five titles of The Institutes of the Law of Scotland,
by Sir George Mackenzie, first printed in 1684, make up what
is here given. The narrative in some parts differs slightly
from the print as to mode of expression, but not as to facts.

Aberdeen. (P. 87.)
What is here given by Macfarlane is only chap. vii. of the

XX PREFACE

Survey of the Town of Aberdeen. A full account of the Survey,
as well as the Epigrams on the Town, and the Elogies on the
other Burghs of Scotland, will be found in the SibbcJd MS.
83.5.16, pp. 83-117. It is not easy to understand why Mac-
farlane^s transcriber, who evidently copied chap. vii. from the
Sibbald MS., did not include the whole Survey, as also all the
Epigrams and Elogies. One recuson may have been that the
whole of this matter was already in print, having been
printed in Aberdeen in 1685, under the title, * A succinct
Survey of the famous city of Aberdeen, with its Situation,
Description, Antiquity, Fidelity, and Loyalty to their
Soveraignes. As also the gracious Rewards conferred thereon,
and the signal evidences of Honour put upon many Chief
Magistrats thereof. With a Catalogue of them since the
City was burned for Loyalty, about the year 1330. Together
with the Epigrams of Arthur Johnstoun, Doctor of Medicin,
upon the said city, and severall other of the Principall Royall-
Burghs in this Ancient Kingdom of Scotland : Translated into
English by I. B. By a Zealous Lover of Bon-Accord
^lAOIIOAITEIOTS. Aberdeen. Printed by John Forbes,
1685.^ The Survey and Epigrams formed part of a larger
work entitled * Memorialls for the Government of the Royall
Burghs of Scotland.' The Author was Alexander Skene of
Newtyle, sometime a bailie of Aberdeen. (See Edmond'^s
Aberdeen Printers^ p. 136.) The Epigrams were in print even
earlier than 1686, having first appeared in an edition of
Johnston's works published in Middelburg in 1642. For full
information regarding these Epigrams the reader is referred to
vol. ii. of Musa Latina Aberdonensis^ edited by the late
Principal Geddes, for the New Spalding Club, 1895.

Kirkcudbright. (P. 185.)

The Description, of which this is the beginning, has already
been printed in vol. li. pp. 128-132.

PREFACE * xxi

The Shiee of Forfaiu (P. 244.)

These Notes by Sir Robert Sibbald are intended as additions
to and corrections of the information supplied by Ochterlony
of Guinde, as printed in vol. ii. of the Collections^ pp. 21-51.
The words preceding the bracket — ) — are given from the
already printed ' Information,^ to indicate where the additions
or corrections should come in.

Melrose Abbey. (P. 162.)

The old inscription here given has long proved a puzzling
one. Mr. MacGregor Chalmers, however, has published a
very carefully prepared facsimile of it in Scots Lore^ p. 13 ;
and in A Scots Mediaeval Architect^ 1895, p. 11.

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NOTES

Parish Church Fabrics.

1. Duthill. *The Bands of the Kirk doors are very rare,
made after the manner of a Tree casting out its branches and
covering the whole Door after the manner of needle-work.'
(P. 241.)

2. Haddington. ' Within the Walls of that Old Church
toward the East end thereof standeth a stone altar of curious
Workmanship about two ells in height." (P. 65.)

3. Tweed-dale. Water of Lyne. * Upon this Water are
three pretty little churches covered with slate.*" (P. 146.)

4. Berwick — Lauder. * There is built in this Burgh lately
by the Duke of Lauderdale, a weel contrived handsom Church,
as it were consisting of four Isles, with a large steeple rising in
the middle thereof.' (P. 174.)

Fairs.

1. Sutherland, Dornoch. *St. Gilbert his Fair,' 'St. Bar
his Fair,' *St. Margarits Fair,' and *St. Bernard his Fair.*
* Every one of these Fairs continues for the space of three
days.' (P. 104.)

2. Sutherland, Golspi. * St. Andrew his Fair.' (P. 104.)

3. Sutherland, Creigh. ' St. Teavnecks Fair.' (P. 104.)

4. Sutherland, Rogart. * St. Callen his Fair.' (P. 104.)

5. Sutherland, Lairg. ' St. Minrie his Fair.' (P. 104.)

6. Sutherland, Clyne. * St. Aloyne his Fair.' (P. 104.)

7. Sutherland. * St. Carden his Fair,' at Kilmaly and at
Loth. (P. 104.)

NOTES xxiii

8. Sutherland, Eildonnand. * St. Donnaad his Fair/
(P. 104.)

Dedications.

1. Angus, Gkms. * Sanct Alured.' (P. 95.)

2. Sutherland, Maridell. ^A chappel dedicate to St.
Ninian.' (P. 99.)

S. Sutherland, Wester Helmesdale. ' A chapel called St.
John's Chapel.- (P. 99.)

4. Sutherland, Golspie. * A Chappel dedicate to St. Andrew.'
(P. 99.)

5. Sutherland, Strathbroray. ^ A chappel dedicate to St.
Colomb.' (P. 99.)

6. Pittenweem. ' In this Island [May] there is a Chappel
called St. Adrian'^s Chappell where that saint . . . was mur-
thered by the Danes and buried.' (P. 220.)

7. Orkney. Damsay. * There is a Church in this island is
dedicated to the Virgin Mary.' (Pp. 307, 318.)

8. Orkney. Hara. ^ There is a large church dedicated to
St. Mary, commonly called the Lady of Grace.' (Pp. 309, 320.)

Place-Names.

1. Shetland. *By the Norvegians it is called Yeltland,
because in old time the Inhabitants here made a kind of
course Cloth, named Yelt, which was carried to Norway and
sold there.' (P. 248.)

2. Dumfries. *So called from the Freez-well beside it."
(P. 186.)

3. Sanquhar. ^So dominated from Sanctus Quarus, who
lived here.' (P. 198.)

4. Penpont. *It is denominate Penpont from a Penny
payed at this place for building and upholding of a Wooden
Bridge over Nith betwixt Penpont and Morton long since
ruined, near to a Village called Thornhill.' (P. 202.)

S.Peterhead. * Called in old Writs Peter-Eugy.' (P. 228.)

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6. Dunotir. From * Dun, a Fort, O, Low or laich, and Tir
a Countrey which is together, The Fort in the Low Countrey/
(P. 232.)

7. Mems, Clochnaben. * Signifies, as some say, a White
Stone; (R287.)

8. Bute. ^ The Castle of Karnes, quhilk Kames in Erische
is alsmeikell as to say in English the Bay Castle.' (P. 264.)

9. Orkney. Sanday. 'So called as if it were the Sandie
island.' (Pp. 303, 314.)

10. Orkney. Stronsay. * So called as if the Streams ile.'
(Pp. 303, 316.)

11. Orkney. Shapinshay. *The Shipping ile.' (Pp. 304,
316.)

12. Orkney. Westray. * The West isle.' (Pp. 305, 316.)

13. Orkney. Papa Westray. *The little West ile.'
(Pp. 306, 316.)

14. Orkney. Faray. 'As if you said fair island (the
pleasant isle).' (Pp. 306, 316.)

15. Orkney. Egilischay. * As if you may say the kirks of
the islands (the kirk ile).' (Pp. 306, 317.)

16. Orkney. Rowsay. ' As if you may say the island of
Ronald.' (Pp. 306, 317.)

17. Orkney. Enhallow. ' As you may say the Holy Island.'
(Pp. 306, 317.)

18. Orkney. Pomona. ' So called as if it were the middle
of the apple.' (Pp. 307, 318.)

19. Orkney. Cavay. *As if it were the cheese island.'
(Pp. 311, 322.)

20. < Elian na Neache, that is in Englische the Horse Ile
guid for horse.' (P. 280.)

Lakes and Rivers that do not Freeze.

1. *A litle Lake in Strath-errick . . ., which never freezes
all over, even in the most vehement frosts, before Febniary ;

NOTES XXV

but one nights frost thereafter, will freeze it all over, & two
nights then will make the Ice of a very considerable thick-
ness.** * There was left no place to doubt the truth of the
matter of fact' (P. 18.)

2. Tarbut. ^ Loch Monar, of a pretty largeness, steddily
keeps the same method' [as No. 1]. (P. 18.)

3. Lake in Straglash at Glencarrich • . . Mn a bottom
'twixt the tops of a very high hill, so that the bottom itself
is very high. This Lake never wants Ice on it in the midle,
even in the hottest summer, though it thaws near the edges."
(P. 18.)

4. *Our famous Lake Ness never freezes.' (P. 18.)

5. Sutherland. ' This River of Shin doth never freeze.'

Natural Objects — Animals, Plants, etc.

1. Shetland. ^In several places here are good Falcons and
each year His Majesties Falconer repairing thither receiveth
their Brood.' (P. 251.)

2. Sutherland. Forrests *full of red Deer and Roes,
Wolfs. . . .' (P. 99.)

8. Sutherland. * In the Diri More there is a Hill called
Arkill, all the Deer that are bred therein or haunt within the
bounds of that hill have forked tails three inches long whereby
they are easily known and discerned from all other Deer.'
(P. 99.)

4. Tweddale. Holmswater. ^ Upon the head of this fertile
Water, above Glenkirk, is a mountain called Fiendsfell before-
mentioned, the Eagle hath nestled past memory of man.'
(P. 162.)

5. Selkirk. St. Mary Lochs. ^ There is also taken in thir
Lochs a little Fish called by the Countrey people Red waimbs.
It is about the bigness of an Herring, and the belly of it wholly
red. It is only to be found about Michaelmass and that only
in the little stream that runneth betwixt the two Lochs but

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not seen at any other time or in any other part of the Lodis.
Yet at that season the Countrey people with Plaids sewed
together like a net, have taken such store of them, that they
carried them home and salted them up in Vessels for the food
of their families/ (P. 165.)

6. Dumfries, Lochmaben loch. * Where the Fishes called
Venaces & Gevenaces are talked of nowhere else in our
Countrey. They are pleasant white Fishes.' (P. 187.)

7. Dumfries. * Contiguous unto this Loch [Lochmaben]
are seven large Lochs, all which have the same Fishes
[Venaces], • . . The Fishes resemble Whitings in colour, tast
sc figure, only being a little more dry." (P. 187.)

8. Buchau. Fovery. 'Eagles build in the Craigs of
Pennan."* (P. 227.)

9. Buchan. Pitsligo. * Some few years ago there was seen
two Mermaids by M'. Alex'. Robertson Pitsligo^s Chaplain
an English man and another person.** (P. 228.)

10. Ila. Banks of Gyinord. ' Upon the quhilk bankes upon
the sea lyes Intinit Selcheis Whilks are slayne with doges
leamit to the same effect.' (P. 271.)

11. Renfrew. * The Inhabitants hereof at Greenock,
Gurock, Innerkep, and Newark, making the greatest number
of fishers. The Fishing of Herrings on all accounts hath
for many years been the most noted of any in Scotland or
about it. the Fish that enter this Firth of Clide, being
larger, fairer, firmer, of a better tast, and taking better with
the salt than any other, and more valued both fresh . and
salted, at home and abroad then any other the Kingdom
affords, the number likewise being incredibly great. . . . There
have been reckoned 2500 Last which comes to 3750 Tun of
Herrings made and salted and exported in a year, beside vast
quantities which are consumed within the Countrey.** * Five
or six hundred Boats have been seen together in one place at
the Take. . . . The Herrings will sometime continue till
Ded" and January from June or July,' (Pp. 211 and ^12.)

NOTES xxvii

12. Renfrew. * Pearls found in Water of White Cart about
Paslay and above it for three miles.' (P. S12.)
18. He Bwya Moir. ' Ane falcon nest/ (P. 288.)

14. He Lingay. * A Falcon nest' (P. 285.)

15. He Kannay. ' A Falcon Nest.' (P. 281.)

16. St. Kilda. *In this fair He is . . . Falcon nests.'
(P. 292.)

17. Orkney, North Ronaldsay. * There is a large rock distant
from the land half a mile by name Selchkerry, where sea fowl
live and build their nests. On that rock the monsters before
mentioned, when the tide flows, ascend to the top, but on its
ebbing they fall into a well, where by no force can they go
out. There is no exit; the peasantry mutually grumbling
amongst themselves at delays coming in the way, draw near to
the rock with large, hard sticks, but at first the monsters eye-
ing them with dread and gnashing their teeth with rage,
strive to get out of the way with wide-open mouth, then they
attack with all their strength and voluntarily carry on the
combat, and if the first shall escape without injury, all the
other (Seiches) attack the men with their teeth, but if the
first shall fall and die, all the others take to flight, and
are ecisily captured, and I have seen sixty taken at once.'
(Pp. 802, 313.)

18. Orkney, Hoy. * White hares are here and are taken with
dogs.' (Pp. 312, 322.)

19. ' There are many wild Catts in Southerland.' (P. 104.)

Miscellaneous.

1. Orkney, Sanday. *I-Aymen here have their shoes made
out of seal-skins, drawn together with a latchet called in
the vernacular Rifflings.' (Pp. 303, 315.)

2. Orkney, Egilscliay. * St. Magnus was born in this island,
and was educated from infancy, and gave a house to his nurse,
viz. one messuage of land, where she built a chapel, in which
she made a vault in the ground, and a couch, table, bed, and

xxviii NOTES

other necessary things for a house out of the stones, but it was
afterwards destroyed . . . nevertheless the household things
still remain/ (Pp. 306, 317.)

3. Orkney, Damsay. ^ The church in this island is dedicated
to the Virgin Mary, to which pregnant women oftentimes go
on pilgrimage; (Pp. 307, 318.)

4. Orkney, Damsay. * Sterile women are here, and if they
shall become pregnant, they never bring forth with life.'*
(Pp. 807, 818.)

5. Orkney, Deemess. On a rock * there is a chapel which is
called the Bairns of Burgh. Hither out of various islands,
men, youths, boys, old men, innumerable servants flock to-
gether, but having come, with naked feet . . . praying they
ascend, where none except one can come to the chapel at one
time: there is there a fountain pure and sparkling, which
indeed is wonderful: then the men with bended knees, and
clasped hands, distrusting that there is a god, supplicate the
Bairns of Burgh with many incantations, throwing stones and
water behind their backs, and walking twice or thrice round
the chapel. Having finished their prayers, they return home
affirming that they have performed their vows. Here they
do not worship God purely.' (Pp. 807, 318.)

6. Orkney, St. Olaf. * Women here are given to excess in
carnal pleasure, I think thus so on account of the abund-
ance of fish.'' (Pp. 308, 319.)

7. Orkney, Stenhouse. * There on a little hill near the lake
in a sepulchre were found the bones of a man, which indeed
were connected together, and were fourteen feet in length, as
the author said, and money was found under the head of the
dead man in that place; and I indeed saw the sepulchre.*^
(Pp. 308, 819.)

8. Orkney, Hoy. * Between which [two mountains] there is
a stone worthy of admiration, it is large and high, being made
by a giant and his wife. One stone is hollowed out, in which
there is a bed very artfully made in the stone for the man and

/^

NOTES xxix

wife. At the time of hollowing out the stone the woman was
pregnant as the bed testifies, for that part of the stone in
which the wife lay has the likeness of a pregnant belly. In
the stone a pillow was made with two hollows out of the rising
of the stone, nevertheless they are not joined by any tenacious
matter, but it is one.' (Pp. 812, 323.)

9. * When they want ink, they take the root of this Iris
palustris lutea (yellow Water flower de Luce), and infuse it
twenty-four [hours] in clear fountain water, others boyl it a
little. The water will not be tinged to any height. Then
they take a rough white Pebble, and rub it continually in
the water on a knife or any piece of clean steel ; & in less
than an hours time, the water will become very black, and
tolerable good Ink. This I oft practised.' (P. 23.)

10. • * When the Deer are wounded, they ly on a certain
Herb, . . . and by its vertue, the bleeding is staunched & the
wound healed. I did take a quantity of it, & reduced it to
a salve, with Wax & butter. Its effect was that it healed too
suddenly, so that I durst not adventure to use it in any deep
wound : But for superficial scars, it hath a very sudden opera-
tion.' I find the herb to be ^ Asphodebis Lancastricd verus of
Johnstoun, or the Lancashire Asphodill.** Sir George Mackenzie
PhiL Trans., vol. x., No. 117, 1876, p. 396. (P. 23.)

11. '^Tis very ordinary to find Molucco beans on the shore
oftheLewes.^ (P. 23.)

12. A married Shetland couple ^ both lean persons,' had
* between them two 33 children." * Many of them were Twins.'
(P. 66.)

13. *The sheep [Shetland] ordinarily bring forth two or
thrie at a time.' (P. 65.)

14. Shetland. * There is a Hillock beside Schalldister in
Whalsey, whereupon if a Mariners Compass, be set, it will so
much vary that the North point will turn to the South ; but
remove it a foot hence, or a very little distance, and it will

XXX NOTES

keep its true pointing. Tlie like is observed in Fettlar on the
Chapell-Wall of Old Stave/ (P. 252,)

16. Aberdeen. *The Town hath set up at every entry of
the Town, seats of hewn stone for the accommodation of old
men and women going to horse, which is ... a comely thing.**
(P. 89.)

16. Sutherland. In the Gardens of Dunrobin * abundance
of good Tobaco.' (P. 106.)

17. Midlothian. ^To the south of Libertoun Kirk there
is a Wellspring which sends up with the Water an Oyl, or rather
a Balsam reasonable thick and fat. This Balsam is gathered
and preserved by the Heritors 10 moneths of the Year, and is
a soveraign cure for wrests Akings, fcc.** (P. 122.)

18. Haddington. * Custome of the Bell-man^s going through
the Town with the Handbell and after tinkling of the same, to
pronounce a Rhime willing the Inhabitants to guard against
fire ; and this is done every night at nine of the clock between
Hallow tide & Candlemass.' (P. 66.)

19. Teviotdale. Water of Rule. *Rule Hospital for
Lepers.'' (P. 158.)

20. Dunotir, Long Gallery. * A stone in the middest of the
wall, taken out of Adrian's wall.' (Pp. 238 and 239.)

21. 'At the shore of Sky lyes ane He callit Pabay ... a
maine shelter for theives and cut-throats.' (P. 283.)

22. Shetland. * I bought for my own use, and the victualling
of the ship sent to London, three Oxen for 3^^ &; at another
time four Oxen for 6 *^ Which were fat, and about the bigness
of the small sort of Cattel we have in England. There were
also fat sheep sold for 2' 8^ and 2' 6^ per sheep.' (P. 62.)

23. Shetland. * The fleet [of Hollanders Busses] consisted
of 1500 sail, and there were about 20 Wasters . . . carrying
about 30 Guns a peice, being the Convoys of the Fleet Busses
which said Busses were of the burden of about 80 Tun.'
(P. 64.)

24. Shetland. * There were also a small Fleet of Dogger

NOITS xxxi

Boats ... of the burden of 60 Tun and upwards which did
fish only with hooks and Lines for Ling and Cod." (P. 64.)

25. Lewes, Pigmies He. * The ancients . . . sayes that the
saids Pigmeis has been Eirdit thair. Maney men of diverse
Countreys hes delvit upe deiplie the ilure of the litle kirk, and
I myselve amanges the leave, and hes found in it deepe under the
Erthe certaine baines . . . of wondei*fulI litle quantity, allegit to
be the baines of the saids Pigmeis quhilk may be lykly accord-
ing to sundrey Iibtoreys . . . bot I leave this far of it to the
Ancients of Lewis.' (P. 292.)

26. Aberdeen. ^One would not have heard the Meanest
Oath in the streets on a Mercat day, though there would have
been several thousands of Countrey & Towns people on the
streets." (P. 91.)

27. Raarsay. * At the North end \ . . layes ane He callit
Ronay . . . quyet for fostering of theives, ruggars, and
reivars." (P. 284.)

28. St. Kilda. M^^Cloid of Herray's steward, at his yearly
visit to Herta, ^ uses to take ane maske of malt ther with a
masking fatt and makes his malt and ere the fat be ready, the
commons of the town both men and weemen and Baimes puts
their hands in the fatt and findis it sweit, and greyns after
the sweitness of it, quhill they leave naither wirt nor drafie
unsupped out ther, quharwith baith men women and baimes
were deid drunken sua that they could not stand upon their
feett.' (P. 291.)

29. Pabay He. ' Quherein also Mac-cleod of the Lewis
ussit to dwell, qulien he wald be quyit or yit fearif (P. 299.)

SUPEBSTITIONS,

1. TuUachcorume. * In old there frequented this Family a
Spirit called Meg MuUoch. It appeared like a little Boy, and
in dark nights would hold a candle before the Goodman, and
shew him the way home, and if the Goodwife would not come

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to bed, it would cast her in beyond him and if she refused to
bring what he desired, it would cast it before him." (P. 248.)

2. Aberdeen. ^The Minister hath called the men, who
conveyed that woman, before her Session, and upon Weddens-
day last, they appeared befoure our Presbytery. All of them,
being foure, . . . did freely confess, that they had taken that
woman to the Well [of Struthhill], that they had stayed two
nights at an house hard by the Well, that the first night they
did bind her twice to a stone at the Well, but she came into
the house to them being loosed without their help. The
second night they bound her over again to that same stone,
& she returned loosed. And they declare also, that she was
very mad, before they took her to the Well, &; since that
time, she is working & sober in her wits."* (P. 91.)

S. Penpont. ^ In the bounds of this land of Eccles there is a
Loch called the Dowloch, of old resorted unto with much super-
stition, as medicinal both for men and beasts and that with
such ceremonies as are shrewdly suspected to have been begun
with Witchcraft; and increased afterward by magical direc-
tions for bringing of a Cloth or somewhat that did relate to the
bodies of men and women and a Shackle or Teather belonging
to a Cow or Horse ; and these being cast into the Loch, if
they did float, it was taken for a good Omen of recovery, and
a part of the water carried to the Patient, though to remote
Places, without saluting or speaking to any they met by the
way. But if they did sink, the recovery of the party was
hopeless. This practice was of late much curbed and
restrained."* (P. 208.)

4. Ronay. ^ Within this He there is ane Chapell callit St.
Ronay'^s Chapell, unto quhilk chapell as the Ancient of the
Countrey alledges they leave ane spaide and ane shuill quhen
any man deis, and upon the morow Andes the place of the
grave markit with ane spaid as they alledge.'* (P. 301.)

NOTES xxxiii

BiKTH AND Burial-Places.

1. Haddington. ' In the southwest end of the Village [Nun-
gate] is the house where John Knox was said to be born."
(P. 67.)

2. Haddington. *John Major was borne at Glegorne."*
(P. 67.)

3. Tweddale, Drumelzear. *Here is the remarkable place
where the Prophet Merlin is said to have been buried at a
Sauch bush near a Burn called Powsayl.** (P. 163.)

4. Egilschay. ^St. Magnus was bom in this Island.**
(Pp. 306, 317.)

Gold Mixes.

1. Gold Mines. Twenty-four gentlemen * to disburse 300 lib
sterlin each man in moneys or victuals for maintenance of the
Gold mines in Scotland ; for which Disbursment each man to
have the honour of knighthood bestowed upon him, and so
for ever to be called The Knight of the Golden Mines, or the
Golden Knight.' (Pp. 45 and 46.)

2. Gold mines. ^ Only one knight was made, called Sir
John CleypooL' (P. 47.)

In editing this third volume of Macfarlane's Geographical
Collections Sir Arthur Mitchell, with the sanction of the
Council, has had the assistance of Mr. J. T. Clark, on whom
the work has very largely fallen. But Sir Arthur Mitchell
gave some assistance, and therefore, at Mr. Clark's desire, his
name appears as Joint-Editor on the title-page. Indeed, Mr.
Clark insisted on its having the first place, and unwillingly
consented to the appearance of his own name there at all.

ARTHUR MITCHELL.
JAMES TOSHACH CLARK.

CONTENTS

(VOL. Ill)

{The Headingt are clotelp copied from the MS,)

PACK

I. Orkney Islands^ by Mr. Matthew Mackaile^

Apothecarie at Aberdeen^ . • • 1

II. Letter to Sir Robert Sibbald^ by Mr. Matthew

Mackaile, • • . . • 7

III. The High Constable of Scotland, • , 7

IV. Tydes about Orcades, by Mr. Matthew Mackaile, 10

V. Letter from Mr. Matthew Mackaile to Sir

Ro. SiBBALD, • • • • ,12

VI. Account of a woman that was seven years with

CHILD^ by Mr. Matthew Mackaile, , . 12

VII. Cattle Disease in Caithness, by Mr. Matthew

Mackaile, . . . ,12

viii. Cave at Slaines, by Mr. Matthew Mackaile, 13

IX; Lead-Mine in Fife, . . .14

X. Ode to the Earl of Errol, .14

XI. Letter from Doci'or Miln to Sir Andrew

Balfour, . . . .15

XII. Account of Metals and Minerals in Scotland

given by Colonell Borthwick, . .16

XIII. Letters by Sir Geo. Mackenzy from Tarbut,

1675, 17

XIV. Some Hints for the Horticulture of Scotland,

by Dr. J. Beal, 1675, . . .20

XXXVl

CONTENTS

XV. Some Observations made in Scotland, by Sir
George Mackenzie^ 1675,

XVI. Letter concerning an Imitating Man, by Geo.
Garden, l67y, ....

xvii. The Making of Malt in Scotland, by Sir Robert
Moray, 1678, ....

xviii. HiRTA AND RoNA, by Sir George Mackenzie,

XIX. Mines k Minerals in Scotland [1619]> •

XX. Memorandum of the Minerals in Scotland, com-

municated by Colonel Borthwick,
• ■

XXI. Another Memorandum, [by Robert Seton],

XXII. Sutherland. Anonymous, no date,

XXIII. Shetland. From John Smith's Book, 1 633,

XXIV. The Burgh of Haddington. Anonymous, no date^

x:iv. Proportion of Excise in several Shires and
Burghs. Anonymous, no date,

xxvi. An Account of the Law and Government of
Scotland, by Sir George Mackenzie. No date.

XXVII. Answers to the General Queries concerning
Caithness, by William Dundas, of KirkabiU^
advocate. No date,

XXVIII. Survey of the Town of Aberdeen in its Situa
TioN^ etc., by Mr. Skene, and communicated by
Bailie Walter Robertson. See Philopoliticus,
Aberd., l685, ....

XXIX. Citations concerning the Scots and Scotland
OUT OF Roman Authors,

XXX. An Account anent Galloway, from Mr. Euart
Provost of Kirkcudbright. No date, .

xxxL Curiosities of Nature, by Lady Mary Gordon
No date, ....

xxxii. Relation anent Corstorphin, by I^rd New
baithe. No date.

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60
65

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87
92
93
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CONTENl'S xxxvii

PAGB

xxxui. Captain Collins his Observation of the High-
water AT Leith. No date, . 9S

XXXIV. Natural Curiosities in the North. Anonymous,

no date, . .94

XXXV. Copy of a Charter granted to Sir W"» Inglish
of the Barony of Maner in Tweddale by King
Robert the 3^ the 6*** year of his Reign dated
at Strivelin the 2^ of October fra the transumpt
appointed by the Lords of Session, 9^

xxxvi. Kino Malcome his Monument in Angus, . . 9^

xxxvii. Notes of Galloway. No author, no date, . 95

xxxviii. The Description of the Province of Souther-
land. With the Commodities thereof. No
author, no date, . .9^

xxxix. Description of East Lothian. No author, no

date, . .110

XL. Description of Midlothian. No author, no date, 115

XLL The Relation of Grahahes Dike with the Forts
and Fortifications that are upon it. No author,
no date, . . . .124

• XLii. Description of the Sheriffdom of Ranfrow
h olden of the Princes and Stewarts of Scotland
described by . . . Schaw of Greenok and Mr.
James Montgomerie of Weitlands. No date, . 125

XLiiL Description of the Sheriffdom of Wigtoun, by
Sir Andrew Agnew of Laclinaw and David
Dumbar of Baldoon. No date, . .127

xLiv. Description of Murray. No author, no date, . 130

xLv. Description of the Sheriffdom of Lanerick, by
Sir W"» Baillie of Lamintoun and W^ Baillie of
Carphin. No date, . .131

XLVi. Description of the Sheriffdom of Roxburgh, by
Sir Wm. Scot of Harden, and Andrew Ker of
Sinlaws. 27 Dec. l649, .135

^

xxxviii CONTENTS

PAGB

XLVit. Description of the Shirefdom of Selkirk^ by
W°» Eliot of Stobbs k Walter Scot of Arkil-
toun. 21 December 1649, .138

XLviii. Description of Tweddalr. No author, no date, . 140

XLix. A further Description of the Several Parishes
WITHIN THE Prebytery OF PEEBLES and how they
are bounded. No author, no date, . . 1 54

L. Information concerning Teviotdale otherwise
called the Shire of Roxburgh. No author, no
date, ...... 156

LI. Old Inscription upon the Lintel of a Door in
THE Abbacy of Melrose which I got read some
7 years ago by the help of an old Schoolmaster, l62

Lii. Description of the Sheriffdom of Selkirk or

Etrick Forest. No author, no date, . .163

LiiL A Description of Berwickshire or the Mers.

No author, no date, . . .169

Liv. A General Description of the Stewartry of

Kirkcudbright. No author, no date, . .185

LV. Account of the Curiosities at Drumfreis, by

Doctour Archbald. No date, . .185

Lvi. Further Account anent Galloway, by Dr. Arch-
bald. No date, . .194

LVii. A brief Description of the Bounds of Presby-
tery OF Pen PONT, being the upper part of the
Sheriffdom of Nidesdale. No author, no date, . 196

Lviii. Renfrewshire. No author, no date, 210

Lix. Descru*tion of the Burgh and Old Pkiory of

Pettinweem. No author, no date, . . 218

LX. Description of Stormont, Gourie, and the

adjoyning parts of Angus, by J. A . No

date, ..... 221

LXi. An Account of Buchan k what is remarkable

therein. No author, no date, 223

CONTENTS xxxix

PAGE

Lxii. A Description of Peterhead. No author, no

date, . . . . 228

Lxiii. Description of the Parish of Dunotir. No

author^ no date, .231

Lxiv. A Note of some remarkable things within the
Sheriffdom of the Merns, by Mr. John Keyth
sometime minister at Dunotir and late Minister
at Garvoek found amoung his Papers in his
Closet after his Death, which is faithfully here
transcribed from the Authentic Copy. No
date, ...... 236

Lxv. Description of Strathspey. No author, no date, 240

Lxvi. Information for Sir Robert Sibbald anent the
Shirr of Forfar, by Ouchterlony of Guinde.
No date, . .244

Lxvii. A General Geographical Description of Zet-
land, by Hugh Leigh, Minister of the Gospel
in Brassie and Burs through John Marr. No
date, . . . .248

Lxviii. A Broken Cross in Revel Church in Annandale,
May 18, 1699- Given by Mr. W. Hamilton of
Orbeston in the year l695, 255

LXix. The Latin Monuments in the Library at the
College of Glasgow. Given by Mr. W.
Hamilton of Orbeston in the year 1695, . 255

Lxx. Preuve de L'Escosse Fran^oise. No author, no

date, ...... 255

Lxxi. Genealogies of the Chieff Clans of the Iles
collected By me Sir Donald Monro Heighe
Deane of the Isles, .... 259

Lxxn. A Description of the Westerns Iles of Scotland
called Hybrides. Compyled by Mr. Donald
Monro, Deane of the Isles. 1549, . 262

}

x\ CONTENTS

PAGE

Lxxiii. Descriptio Insularum Orchadiarum, per Jo.

Beii^ ibidem Colentem. Anno 1529> . 302

(TransUUion into English of the above), . 313

LXXIV. HUSBANDRIE USED BY THE OrCHADIANS. No

author, no date, .... 324
INDEX, 325

CORRIGENDA. VOLUME II.

Page 632, line 3, f(yr [CbartereJ read [The Paper MIUb, now Pefifermili].
Page 632, line 16, for Monks read Nunu.

NoTxa. — L A Numeral on the marffin {cUl through the book) thow$ the page of the
manutcript which is reached where it oeews.
8. Thefooinote$ occur in the manuteript, unlett they are marked <u inserted
hy the Editor.

COLLECTIONS of PAPERS and INFORMA-i.
TION In order to the description of Scotland.

A short Relation of the most considerable things in the
ORKNEY ISLANDS by Mr. Matthew Mackaile
Apothecarie at Aberdeen.

It is very probable that the Inhabitants of the Orcades of
old did only speak Noords or rude Danish ; but now there are
only three or four Parishes (especially upon the Mainland or
Pomona ;) wherein that language is spoken and chiefly when
they are at their own houses, but all speak the Scots language,
as the rest of the Commons do.

The common people, though rude and ignorant, are very
subtile and sagacious, and capable to learn. They do excell
all people for navigation in small Boats, with 4 or 6 Oars and
one or two sails; which is evident from the little prejudice
they sustain in going from one Island to another, when the
tide runneth most impetuously. The present Earl of Morton
informed me that about 1643 he had a Regiment of Orkney-
men, which was inferiour to none in the army. They are
necessitate to use litle boats, which the sailers must con-
stantly draw without the floud-mark, because they have no
Harbours or Keys, though every Island hath at least, one
good Rode.

Untill the year [1614] the Earles and Bishops lands were
runrig'*d through Orkney emd Zetland, the former having two
and the later one ; But then Bishop Law and the Chapter did
resign all to the King, who did appoint the Bishop his rent to

VOL. III. A

9. ORKNEY ISLANDS

be payed out of four or five Parishes in the Mainland and two
or three Islands.

In every Island almost, where there is a valley by the sea-
side, there is also a freshwater Lake, as was at the Town of
Kirkwall where at the end of the Wall dividing the fresh from
the salt water (like an artificial Bulwark, as it is also in all
P. other such places) they did cut ; that the fresh water might run
into the sea, which ever since doth flow into, and ebb out of
it, where the ships do ly very securely.

In this town is a very stately cathedral, having three very
good Bells, which fell to the ground, the wooden cover of the
steeple being set on fire by thunder, in the year 1666 or 1667.
The Products of those Islands are only black Oats, common
barley, coney-skins, Fish-oil, and butter; which last the
Tenants being obliged to pay by weight, without respect to its
goodness, when they make it, they put a hote stone into the
churn, that they may get much of the butter, and in a short
time, which maketh it soon become rancide. They afterward
put it up in barrells, and because some do put in a considerable
quantity of dry salt to make it weigh well, they peirce it in
severall places with a Wimble for discovering the cheat.

They carry their Victual ordinarily to Zetland, (in which
Islands there groweth not so much every year as would main-
tain the Inhabitants three months) or Norway and sometimes
to Leith. It is sold by weight, and that which i§ equivalent
to a Boll, they call a Meel. viz. pounds, which is half as
much again in quantity as a boll, but of the same Rate ; and
a Meel of their Malt will afford no more good Ale than a
Boll of Malt growing in the south.

Because of the land, (excepting the parish of Hara in the
west end and broadest part of the Mainland and far from the
sea) is dungM with sea Ware, the Ale is sharp, and all
strangers for the first moneth or six weeks are troubled with a
litle Diarrhoea, wherein is no hazard.

They gather the sea-ware (which is frequently and copiously

cast out by the sea) into heaps, which being putrified affordetli

a very bad smell and many Insects, which the starlings do feed

s. upon : and therefore it is ordinary to see hundreds of those

birds upon each heap.

ORKNEY ISLANDS 3

AH the Islands are high and rocky excepting Sanda and
Burra.

The Inhabitants at the west end of the Main, and at the
east, but especially those in Copinsha, purchase a great many
feathers by taking the sea-fowls from off the high Rocks,
letting down a man with a strong Rope about his midle, and
he throweth the birds into the boat attending below. The
height and steepness of those rocks are incredible, but by those
who have seen them.

Sometimes very big Whales will be put on shore. The
Laird of Mains, then Heritour of Burra, got a great ball of
Spermaceti cast out of the sea upon one of his Islands, which
he sent to London, and got considerably for it.

In the year 1664, a merchant in Kirkwall having sold by
retail several barrels of whale-oil, when the last of them was
half spent, a woman regrated to him, that she had got from
his man, very bad and thick oil, wherwith she could not get
her wool greased. He having told me of this, and letting me
see some of it, I lent him my Press, whereby, putting it in a
linen bag, he did separate the Oil from that which is called
Sperma Ceti, whereof he got two or three pounds. It having
been long amongst the Oil, had contracted a very rancid smell
and brounish colour, neither of which qualities I knew how to
remove ; and therefore he sold it at Edinburgh for ISf or a
shilling the ounce.

From hence it is evident, that concret hath gott a wrong
name. Moreover it is not every sort of Whales, which
affordeth that substance, which is altogether sulphureous and
inflamable.

Those Islands abound with wild fowls of all sorts as Moor-
fowls, Plovers, Doves, which make their nests in the Rocks,
Swans, Ducks, and Geese of several sorts and particular Cleck
Geese, which come thither in the end of harvest, and go away
immediately before the spring Yet Monteith of Egilsha 4,
informed me, that one year they did hatch their Eggs in his
Holme, which confirmed me in my misbelieving that these
Geese are generate out of Trees : for I have not only seen an
old and torn tree full of those shells like to musiles, wherein
they are said to be found, but also fresh stem Posts of ships.

4 ORKNEY ISLANDS

which no man would believe to have been six moneths
wrackt.

But they have no Patridges at all, nor ordinary black Crows
(only in the four years of my abode there, I saw once three of
them three miles west from the Town), but abundance of those
which have black heads and wings with gray bodies. They
have also many Ravens, which first pick out the eyes of
Lambs and then kill them.

There are no foxes nor hares; only I was informed that
about eighty years ago, there were several either black or
white hares upon the two great mountains in Choye, betwixt
which amongst the heather, much Juniper affording few if any
ripe Berries, some Bourtrees, Birks, Rauntrees do grow, but
when they become so big, as to be usefuU for boats, the
Inhabitants make Pins of them.

Many of the Marishes have the «a/ir humilis kUifolia ; and
at the eastend of the Main and head of Deersound at Camps-
toun, there is a litle wood, (about two pair of Butts in length
and one broad, and as tall as a man) of the ordinary saSx
angustifolia or Vimviea,

Near to the town are a few whins, which the Earl of Orkney
caused plant. When I was there 1664 ; Arthur Buchanan of
Sound inclosed a litle ground, but the Broom-seed did never
appear above ground.

In the Bishop^s Garden, which is in the town, are some
Apple and Cherry-trees which in a extraordinary hot year
will produce Cherries a little red about Lammas.
5. Several Gentlemen have planted Ashes and Plains in their
Gardens; but whatsoever groweth higher than the Dikes,
fadeth the next winter; so you can never see them taller
than the Dikes, save in the summer. It were worth the
disquisition how this cometh to pass, seing trees do grow so
well in Norway, which for the most part, is more northerly.

All the Islands are well fired, by reason of the abundance of
Moss-ground, Sanda and North Ronaldsha excepted, wherein
are no Peats at all; but the Inhabitants bring them from
Etha, (betwixt which Islands runneth a most impetuous
cun-ent) or the little Island beside it called the Calf of Etha,
wherein the Earl of Carrick son to the Earle of Orkney, built

ORKNEY ISLANDS 5

five salt pans, because the Peats there are little inferiour to
coals for weight, hardness and burning well.

In January 1665, the frost and snow continued 14 days, the
like whereof none then alive had seen there.

The Horses are litle and go all barefoot ; unless the Gentle-
men put shoes upon the horses, upon which they ride them-
selves.

The Kine and Sheep are also little, but very good, two or
three places excepted, where they and the Conies do eat sea-
ware, which maketh their tallow a little brownish and also
altereth their tast.

There are many Eagles, especially at the west end of the
Main and in Choye. I was very credibly informed that an
Eagle did take up a swaddled Infant a month old, which the
mother had laid down untill she went to the back of the
Peat-stack at Houton-head, & carried it to Choye viz. four
miles, which being discovered by a traveller who heard the
lamentations of the mother, four men went presently thither
in a boat, and knowing the Eagles nest, found the child with-
out any prejudice done to it.

There are also many Hawks ; but the best is that of the fair
Isle lying thirty miles from Orkney, and as far from Zetlemd,
so that his flight is that long.

From the top of the eastmost mountain in Choye, about ^
one afternoon for ten or twelve days, and an houres time, in
the midle of June or July the sun shining, there appeareth a
great light, like to that of the sun reflected from a large
Mirrour, to any standing at the Bon or Chiefly house of Choye,
which is upon the Northwest corner of the Isle & two miles
distant from the top of the Mountain, to which the Laird of
Halcro then Heritour there, had sent severall times, men, to
search the place reflecting the light, but they could find
nothing extraordinary which Halcro told myself.

At the foot of this Mountain I did see a very large four-
cornered freestone lying altogether above the ground, and
under it runneth a little stripe of water not a foot broad.
There are no extraordinary big stones near to it, neither the
appearance of any Quarry out of which it was digged. Yet it
is so big, that having a round hole in the upper side, I went

6 ORKNEY ISLANDS

down thereby and found two Beds hewed out with Irons, and
a little Trunce betwix them, the one being for a man, alike
wide from end to end, and the other for a woman, being much
wider in the middle, that it might hold her belly, when with
child. It doth most resemble the cabin of a small ship.

At Deemess and in Gremsie were two Lead-mines of old.
But now Gremsie affordeth only slates for thatching of
houses.

I did never see bigger Artichocks than there ; where also
Carrots, Parsnips, &c. do grow to great bigness ; and I was
informed by the owner, that at Birza, he had once a cabbage
stock which weighed thirty two pounds.

In Egilsha and Thiefs-holme, so called, because of old the
Gibbet stood there, is found a groff sort of sand whitish and
like Corall in shape. In Thiefs-holme I found of it not only
whitish but also another sort very redish, and about an inch
long. The Inhabitants take of this sand, which is in Egilsha,
and do mix it with Lime brought from Forth, then make an
7'. heap of it till the next year ; after which they plaister with it
their houses without, which preserveth them much and long
from the injuries of rain.

In Deersoimd and about the Island Damsay, are Oysters,
which are taken at a low water, by peircing them with spits of
Iron, as they ly amongst the Rocks.

Bees are so rare there, that a young man in the end of
April stopt the skep (which a Lady had taken thither from
Angus) with a peice of a Peat. About eight days thereafter
the Laird going to look after them, found them all dead.
His family being conveened, he inquired, who had done it.
The actor did confidently answer, that upon such a fair
day he did it ; because they were all flying away.

About Lammas the Inhabitants do sometimes send a boat
or two 40 miles west to an Island called the Stack, (which is
most like to the Bass, and lyeth also 40 miles north from
Stranaver) where they get abundance of Solan-Geese; and
this is the place, to which those which build in the Bass do all
go after August or September, from which they return again
in the Spring.

Near to this, is another Isle called Selch-Skerrie, to which

THE HIGH CONSTABLE 7

they go also in the Winter when there is a strong Frost &
Calm. There they kill many seales, which they find lying
upon the Isle, and bring away their skins and fat.

The Ews in Orkney have ordinarly two Lambs, frequently
three, and sometimes four. And I was informed by a Gentle-
man there, that one of his Ews did at one time bring forth
four lambs, three whereof were lame in their forelegs and
went on their knees.

To these may be added the relation of the Tides there,^
whereof I informed Sir Robert Moray 1666 who caused
insert it in the Philosophical Transactions Vol. 8 for the
year 167S Nov. 17, p. 61S9, Numb. 98.

Fragment of a LErrEB written to Sib Robert Sibbald of ^.
Kips Doctor of Medicine by the said Mr. Matthew
Mackaile.

from Aberdeen Febr 1683.

My old Master Thomas Crawford explaining his Dictates
to my comrades, and to me told us, that in the Castle of
Dumbarton were two Wells near to one another, the one
whereof affordeth fresh, the other salt water ; as also that in
that Rock was a Load-ston which occasioned the Carts of all
the Compasses to turn towards it as ships went by. I do
therefore entreat you to enquire after the certainty of the
premises, and inform me of the same.

The honours and privileges of the HIGH
CONSTABLE of the Kingdom of Scot-
land.

Most Sacked Soveraign,

According to the warrant and direction of the Com-
mission granted by your Majesty unto us for trial taking of
the Honours and Priviledges due to the Office of High Con-
stable within this Kidgdom. We have kept sundry Diets and
Meetings, where the noble Earl of Errol was present, and
having heard and considered his Claim, and the Instructions

* Given on pp. lo, ii. — Ed.

8 THE HIGH CONSTABLE

and Warrants produced by him for verifying the same and
having likewise informed ourselves, what the Custome of other
countreys allows in the like causes; We have here thought
good to set down in Articles our opinion and Judgements
concerning the said Priviledges, and therewithal! to certify
your Majesty of what we conceive to be due and belonging to
the Constable in the Rights of his Office.

1. In all Royal Armies, the Constable, in the Right of his
Office is Lieutenant General and Supreame Officer next to the
King. He has the command. Direction, and Government
of the Army and is proper and sole Judge in all military
affairs; in all actions concerning the Lieutenants, Captains,
the Officers and Companies, enduring their Employment or

. Pay in the Kings service, and that according to the custom
universally observed in other Countreys.

^. 2. It appears, that in former times, here the Constable had
precedency and place next unto the Chancellour with pre-
lation to all other officers whatsoever. And so far as we can
learn, they have been in possession of the same till of late
years, that your Majesties dearest Father of ever blessed
memory was pleased to prefer the late Earle of Dunbar to
be High Thesaurer of this Kingdom and that your Majesties
self sensyne advanced the late Earle of Montrose to be
President of your Council and the Earle of Hadingtoun to
be Lord Privy Seal, Ordaining them in the Right and
Warrant of their Offices, to take place successively in order
next unto the Chancellour. Likeas their successours in the
saids Offices presently enjoy the same.

3. The Constable is the Supream Judge in matters of Riot,
Disorder, Bloud and Slaughter committed within four miles
of the King^s person, or of the Parliam: or Council repre-
senting the Royal Authority in his Majesties absence ; And
that as well within the Court as without the same. And
the trial and punishment of such Crimes and Offences is
proper and due to the Constable and his Deputes ; and the
Provest or Bailies of that City or Burgh, and all other Juges
within the bounds, where the saids Facts are committed, are
obliged to rise, concur, fortify and assist the Constable and
his Deputes in taking of the saids Malefactours, and to make

THE HIGH CONSTABLE 9

their Tolbooth patent for receiving them therein, as was
clearly verified by production of Warrants granted by Your
Majesties Predecessours for that effect. And which likewise
appeared by exhibition of certain Bonds made by the town of
^Edinburgh for the time.

4. The Constable has the Charge and guarding of the
King's Person in time of Parliam: or Convention; and the
keeping of the Parliam :-hotise is committed unto the Con-
stable and the Key therof delivered to him for that effect.
Likeas he has the chieff command of all Guards and Men at 10.
Armes attending the King^s Person at such times.

6. In time of Parliament the Constable rides upon the
Kings right, and carries a White Baston in token of command
And accordingly sitteth apart from the rest of the Nobility upon
the Kings right hand, having the honours lying beside him.

6. Before the thirteenth Parliament of King James the
Second the Constable was in possession of taking all distress of
all manner of goods bought or sold in the mercat, the time of
Session, General Council, and Parliament, which being at that
time discharged, untill the Constable should clear his right
unto the same in the next Parliament following, We find that in
the table of the unprinted Acts of the fourteenth Parliament
there is mention made of an Act touching the taking of Stress
by the Constable, but can find no Record thereof in the Register.

7. In the Original Charter granted by King Robert the
first of glorious Memory to Gilbert Lord Hay first Constable
of that name, and Ancestour to this Earle of Erroll, We find
the Ofiice of Constabulary to be given to him cum HostUagiis
as a main & principal Privilege belonging to the said Ofiice ;
which being a word obsolete and out of use, and we not
knowing perfectly the genuine sense and meaning thereof and
whether the same doth import the Liberty and Right or a
Lodging duly fiimishM and appointed within the Kings
house, as many do suppose, or an house in every town where
the King did or if there be any other Priviledge or Casuality
thereby implyed ; We have in that regard forbom to deliver
our Opinion concerning the same, as also anent the putting of
the Crown upon the Kings head the time of the Coronation,
which with sundry other Priviledges are claimed by the Con-

10 TIDES IN ORKNEY

stable due unto him in the right of his Office, & whereof, as he
11. alledges, his Predecessours have been prejudged, and the same
brought in discontinuance by reason of the many Eclipses,
which that Noble House fra time to time, has suffered upon
the untimous death of the most part of his Predecessors, who,
out of their zeal to the King'^s Service and Honour of their
Countrey, did worthily end their days in battel, before they
could gain the opportunity of time, or ripeness of years to
settle their Estates or vindicate the liberties due unto their
Place and Office. And thus for accompt of our Proceedings in
the execution of the Commission direct by Your Majesty unto
us, which We humbly offer unto Your Ma**** Royal Con-
sideration Praying God to bless Your Majestie with many,
long and happy years.

From Haliroodhouse the 27 of July 1631.

Sic subscribitur
Wintoun, Lithgow, Wigtoun, Napier, Arch :
Achesone, Fletcher, Henryson, Duplin,
W. Skeen, Th. Hope, Balmerinoch.

An Account of the CURRENT of the
TYDES about the ORCADES (men-
tioned before, p. 6) given in by Mr.
Matthew Mackaile, who had pass'd
himself that way, and from him communi-
cated to the Publisher of the Philosophical
Transactions be the truly Honourable Sir
Robert Moray, Knight, deceased, lately
one of the Vice-Presidents of the R.
Society, of which he had been President
formerly; whose Death is no less de-
servedly than exceedingly lamented by
all that knew his Worth, knowledge. In-
tegrity, Prudence and Courage.

In Fairay-sound betwixt the Isles of Fairay and iEtha in
Orkney, the sea runneth North East for the space of three

TIDES IN ORKNEY 11

hours in Flowing and nine hours southwest in Ebbing. This
is the course of the Tide only in the midle of the sound,
which is but one mile broad.

The next Isle to Fairay, towards the southwest is Westra,
which is an Isle, and about five miles in lenth, and three or
four miles in breadth, upon the southEastsyde of this Island,
within a mile to the shore, lyeth another litle Isle, which is not ^^-
half a mile in circumference. South and South west from these
two Islands is Westra Frith, eight miles in breadth, running
betwixt them, and the Isle called Pansa. Through this Firth
the English ships do ordinarly pass in their course to Ireland.

Whilst the sea runneth from West to East in flowing,
through this Westra Frith, there are no greater surges, than
in any other place of the sea, and in a calm day, it is as smooth
as any lake, though there is constantly a great current in the
Flux and Reflux of the sea. Yet at the southeast end of the
forementioned litle Island, the sea no sooner begins to run
westward in Ebbing, but there beginneth a surge to appear
which continually increaseth untill the Ebb be half spent ; and
afterwards it decreaseth untill it be low water, at which time
there appeareth no such thing. East and West from this great
surge there are some few lesser surges seen, which are gradually
less towards the East and West after this manner.
I having occasion to pass that way, in a litle boat ;
when we had passed over the Eastmost surges, and
were beginning to ascend the biggest; upon the
tenth of April, at on of the clock in the afternoon, the
surge before us was so high that it intercepted the sight
of the sun, and some degrees of the firmament above it.
This surge is about a quarter of a mile in length. When
there is any wind, which occasioneth the breaking of the tops
of the surges, there is no passing that way. The current of
the tide is so strong there, that there is no need of sails or of
Oars, save only to direct the Boat, as doth the helm.

12 CATTLE DISEASE IX CATTHNESS

EXTRACT of a LETTER written from
Aberdeen 3iar. 5, 1683. by Mr. 3Iatthew
Mackaile Apothecare theie to Sis Ro.
SiBBALD of Kips Doctor of Medicine.

Three yean ago, Mr. Patrick Clunies Minister at Week in

(^ aithneM informed me, that there was a Marish not br from

/I. hi« house, out of which one might dig as many stones called

thunderbolts, as they pleased, and gave me a veiy large one of

them, which I believe I gave to Dr. Balfour.

Of a woman that was seven years with child and were
brought to bed, the account whereof was written by
the aforesaid Mr. Matthew Mackaile in the Earl of
Caithness his house January 1666 together with the
following observations about the cattel in Caithness
and communicated by him to the said Sir Robert
SiBBALD in the above written Letter March 5, 1683.

A man in Caithness, to whom a woman had bom a child,
<lid afterward marry another woman, after which the man
found himself impotent, which he regrated to a friend, who
inquired if ever he had known another woman. He answered
Yes, The person then advised him to go to that woman and
renew his kindness, which he did, and begot the woman with
child, which the churche-session of Bower did challenge, and
the man confessed to be his, as also the re€ison why he did it,
after which he was no more impotent. But the woman lived
with child seven year and was never brought to bed; her
belly was so big, that she was necessitated to support it
with a band, which was tyed about her neck. The greatest
bigness was in one of her sides, which contained, as it were, a
great Lump, which moved of itself. After seven years, she
died, but was not opened, there being no chururgion near the
pla(*e.

What is IIkastie incident to the Beasts in Cathness.
The Beasts in Cathness are often troubled with a Disease

DROPPING CAVE AT SLANES 13

which the people there call the Heastie, because it putteth
them in a rage and killetb them suddenly. The apprehend it
to come by Witchcraft, for if there be an exact search made
in and about the houses belonging to the owners of the cattell
that are thus distempered ; there will be found lying together
a litle bit of every part of such as is distempered ; as a litle
of the head, tongue, heart, lights, liver &^, which some^^.
take to the person whom they suspect, & plead with them,
whereupon the Beast or Beasts recover ; or they put them in
the house of some of their neighbours, whose cattel imme-
diatly become sick, and their own recover. But if the Beast
dy, when the people are taking off the skin, if any drop of the
bloud of the beast did light upon man or woman, it imme-
diately occasioneth a great Inflammation, swelling and pain in
the place where it lighteth and killeth in few days.

Two women (the one nursing her first child), were touched
by some of this bloud, and became immediately unwell. The
bloud had lighted upon the nurse, the side of her nose, and
occasioned a great Inflammation Sc^, The two women being
in one house sent for some things to do them good, which a
person of Honour sent to them. The Remedy was a drawing
Plaister, which the nurse applied to her face, and in few
days, it produced a suppuration, a litle below the place,
where the bloud lighted, and at length cured the distemper.
The other woman would not make use of the Plaister, but
died after two or three dayes.

Some of the bloud lighted upon the nether Palpebra of
another Woman, which occasioned the Inflammation &® which
the strength of nature mastered : but ever since that Palpebra
hangeth down upon her cheek and the inner red side of it is
outmost.

RELATION from the same hand at the
dropping CAVE at SLANES.

The water there runneth through a lime-stone, which is
whitish before it be burned; & what petrify eth is only the
sediment of it making a crust as that of Urine doth.

14 ODE TO THE EARL OF ERROL

i^ RELATION anent a LEAD-MINE in FIFE.

The Laird of Pitlour gave me two peices of Lead-Ore which
seemeth to be very rich. The Mine, where it was found
belongs to Broun of Finmont in a ground of his, upon the
water of Ord within three miles of Eircaldie.

Carmina de INSIGNIIS COMITIS ER-
ROLLII, Haiorum Principis.

Carmina de Insigniis Comitis Errollii Haiorum gentis
Principis, et Magni Scotiae Regni Constabularii &^.

Sanguineo stat utrinque Jugo par nobile Fratrum^

Marte ferox, cultse pacis et arte ferax.
Sanguineum gestans triplex Insignia scutum,

Ter Celebris meriti digna Trophaea sui.
Danorum de cssde rubent, numerusque duobus

Cum Natis signat nobile stemma patrem.
Expansis crista^ pennis^ stat Falco tenaci,

Unge minax^ oculis lyncsa celsa petens,
Ut volucrum Falco fugat agmina, sic tribus Hajra

Sub victrix misit millia multa Jugum,
Invictum servare Jugum Rex jussit ut hostes

Ultrici subdunt liuic sua colla jugo.
Ut Comiti stabuli strictis datur ensis utrinque.

Regis ad Imperium, prsesidiumque Throni.

The same Lines as they are corrected by Mr. James Brown.

Sanguineo stat utrinque Jugo par nobile fratrum,

Marte ferox, cults pacis et arte ferox.
Sanguineum gestans triplex^ Insignia scutum

Ter Celebris meriti digna Trophiea sui.
Danorum de ccede rubent^ numerusque, duobus

Cum natis, signat nobile stemma, Patrem.
Expansis crista Pennis, stat Falco tenaci

Unque minax, oculis Lynceus, alta petens.
16, £t falco ut volucrum fugat agmina, sic tribus Haya

Victrix subjecit millia multa Jugo.
Invictum servare Jugum Rex jussit ut hostes

Ultrici subdant huic sua colla Jugo.
Ut Comiti Stabuli, strictus datur ensis utrinque^

Regis ad Imperium, Praesidiumque Throni.

ODE TO THE EARL MARISCHAL 16

Carmina de INSIGNIIS COMITIS MARI-
SCHALLI Kethrum gentis Principi, nec-
non Scotiae regni Magni Marischalli, &c.

CapreoluB stat utrinque erecto corpore promtus,

Et vigil hue illuc lumina cauta rotat ;
Tresque metallifero palos Insignia scuto

Fert, expug^nati symbola certa loci.
Principe parte auro, dehinc inferiore coruscans

Argento^ monstrat nobile Lemma Ducis :
Namque paludatus prodibat ad agmina Chattus,

£t trabe4 fulgens Induperator erat :
Sanguine Romano primum rubuere^ priusquam

Puppe Cathanesios obtinuere sinus :
Danorum tandem partis de strage trophnis,

Fuste Marischalli nobiliore nitent.
Scilicet ut Palus vallat munimina, fundat

iEdes, a subitis insidiisque tegit^
Sic Danis obstruxit iter^ velut aggere Kethus,

Fergusidum invicto sic dedit esse throno.
Hinc virtus duplicem, victrix quia vera^ coronam

Servatam ob Patriam, Regia dona refert.
Provida et drpfcar speculatur vertice Regem

Neve Gregem posthac c»ca pericla petant.

The lost of these Distichs as it is corrected by Mr. James 17.

Broun.

Provida quin dopKas speculatur vertice^ Regem
Neve Gregem posthac c»ca pericla petant.

Extract of a Letter written from Inverury

Man 8. 1688, by Doctor Miln to Sir

Andrew Balfour, Physician in Ordinary

to His Majesty, and by him communicated

to Sir Robert Sibbald of Kips, Doctor of

Medicine.

Sib, — I beseech you, let Sir Robert Sibbald know that I
have received his Queries, and wish that I could send him such
information as he desires. But this place and the countrey
hereabout affords but litle mater for a such a design : yet I
shall not be wanting in what comes to my knowledge worthy
his notice. All I can say at present of this place is only, that

16 METALS AND MINERAUS IN SCOTLAND

it is a royal Burrow erected so by King Robert the Bruce, for
having gained a Victory here, I think over the Cumins, of
which Buchanan makes mention in his Chronicle in these
termes. * Hcec victoria ad Etmeruriam parta^ ut Regem morbo
Rberavii^ ita rerum praspere gerendartan njvit Initiutn : qmc-
quid enim ab eo die attentaviij ei feUdier cesrii^ If I can
procure any thing worth sending, from any curious person here,
I shall not fail either to send it, or oblige them to do so.

Account of METALS and MINERALS in
Scotland given by Colonell Borthwick.

At Castle-Campbell there is great quantity of sulphure; as
likewise within sex miles of Dumbarten upon Clide-side, where
there is a great deal of it lying upon the banks.

Alum is found in several places of Scotland.

The Lapis Calaminaris is found in Scotland, which mixt
with copper makes Brass.

Gold is found in several places of Scotland; the most
IS, famous is Crawford-moor, where it was found by King James
the 4th and King James the 5th, and is yet found by passing
through searches, the earth and sand brought down with
speats of rain. I have seen peices of it as big as a cherry. It
is exceeding fine gold. The Ore as it was tryed at the Kings
Mint at London, afFordeth eleven parts of gold and the refuse
was silver.

A place called Durisdeir is famous for gold.

Some report that at Clova at the head of Southesk some
eight miles from Killimoor there is found gold and silver.

At the silver mines in West-Lothian there is found first a
sulphure then lead and then silver.

Near Lintoun in Tweddale is found Lead and Silver.

At the silver mines in West Lothian there is found a sparr
with green veins, which affords one of the highest and finest
blew colours.

The copper mine at Aithree, which lyeth between Stirlin
ft Dumblane, affords off copper fifty of an hundreth of the
Ore ; Besides that, of silver to the value of 100 lib sterling.
And to the value of 200 Lib sterlin it affords of Gold.

TARBUT 17

Three miles to Eastward of Aithrec, amongst the Ochels
upon the water of Alquharey, within two miles of the head of
the water, there are many great stones found full of blew and
green veins, which contain copper.

Upon the other side of the water, in Perthshire is found
Cinaber the Matrix of Quicksilver. Cinaber is also found in
several other places of Scotland.

There was lately found within four miles of Ed' upon Curry
Water, in John Scot of Lamphoys ground copper-ore. I have
seen the copper made of it.

Gold and Lead said to be found in the forest, Sir William
Scots, bounds.

The Colonell shewed me likewise a peice of Lead -Ore found
within four miles of Ed^ I suppose it be Catherhalls ground.

At Braids-Craigs, there is a stone with blew and green veins 19.
found, which argues, there is copper there.

At Orok, about Bruntisland, it is said there is Amethyst
found. I have seen a fine sort of Bastard-Diamonds found
there.

At Erick-stone in the land of one Johnston of Newtoun,
one Seton, that had been in Mexico, found some metals of
great value, after the washing of the earth, that was worn off
a hill there by some water he set upon the roots of the hill.

The Lapis Haematites is also found in Scotland.

Extract of Several Letters sent to the
Publisher of the Transactions Philo-
sophical from Edinburgh by the learned
Mr. James Gregory, to whom they were
written by that Intelligent Knight Sir
Georoe Mackenzy from Tarbut & in-
sert in these Transactions. Vol. 10,
Numb. 114, for the year 1675. May 24^,
p, 807.

1. The Wind here, on the 21*^ of Dec* last, was extra-
ordinary : it broke a standard-stone, that stood as an obelisk
near an old church ; which stone was about 12 foot high, 5

VOL. III. B

18 STRATHERRICK— LOCH NESS

foot broad & near 2 foot thick. Whole woods were over-
tumM ft torn up from the root, though in a low scituation. It
blew from the northwest, & of a long time the wind had con-
tinued Westerly. Jan. 16, 167^.

S. I had notice of a Phenomenon that I judged odd, and
considerable searching into the nature of cold, which is. Tliat
there is a litle Lake in Strath-errick on the Lord Lovets
Lands, which never freezes all over, even in the most vehement
frosts, before February ; but one nights frost thereafter, will
freeze it all over, & two nights then will make the Ice of a
very considerable thickness. This I did inquire after very
sollicitously from the honestest & soberest of the adjoining
Inhabitants & it was verified by so many, that there was left
no place to doubt the truth of the matter of fact. I have
since heard of two other Lakes, one of which is on lands be-
to. longing to myself called Loch Monar, of a pretty largeness,
which steddily keeps the same method, & I have inquired after
it by many, who have affirmed it to me on their own know-
ledge. There is another little Lake in Straglash at Glen-
carrich on lands belonging to one Chissolm ; the Lake lies in
a bottom 'twixt the tops of a very high hill, so that the
bottom itself is very high. This Lake never wants Ice on it
in the midle, even in the hottest summer, though it thaws
near the edges ; And this Ice is found on it, though the sun
by reason of the reflexion from the hills in that country, is
very hot, and Lakes lying as high in the neighbourhood have
no such Phenomenon. Tis observable also, that about the
borders of this Lake the Grass keeps a continual verdure, as
if it were in a constant spring and feeds & fattens beasts more
in a week than any other grass doth in a forthnight. The
matter of fact I have fully examined in both these ; but to
hit the cause, requires a better Philosopher than I am &c,
February 8, 167+.

3. Our famous Lake Ness never freezes ; but on the con-
trary in the violentest frosts, the greater clouds of steams do
arise from it And I remember that at two several times, I
being at Inverness, walking in the evenings along the Bridge
over the River Ness, a mist of those steams coming from the
Lake & falling down to us over the River (for there was no

GLEVELG 19

mist in any place thereabout, but on this Liake and River
only) our hair became all white, like the whiteness of a hoare
frost, but it was soft ft warm ; and this was in the midst of
summer & in warm evenings. Last week I was speaking with
Dr. George Makenzy who lives at Inverness, of this matter :
He told me, that he observes Rosemary to continue in the
Gardens about that Lakes side, notwithstanding the last
Winters long & violent frosts, whereas a far less violent
Winter ordinarily kills all the Rosemary, which is in Gardens
that ly in warmer places & at tlie sea-side. And which is
more, though I live near it, & in a better soyl & warmer
scituation; yet any Winter more than ordinary cold kills ^i.
my Rosemary, though covered over with straw & Litter.
Whereas near Loch Ness, it remained good, though un-
covered, in the last sharp Winter. Which he attributes,
and I think on good ground, to the warmth occasioned by
these steams that frequently arise from that Lake. Feb. 25,

167^.

4. Having in my former letters written of water, I shall yet
add this of that subject. That in Glevelg at a place called
Achignigliun, there is a litle rivolet, which so turns Holly
into a greenish stone, that they ordinarily make moulds of it
for casting of Balls for Fusees ; and Tinkers that work in brass,
make both their moulds & melting pots of it ; & women their .
round Wharls for spinning. May it not be, that by the long
infusion in water descending from hills, which perhaps abound
in Marie, capable to be resolved into small particles by the
constant washing of the water, May it not be, I say, that
these little particles do intrude into the cleansed pores of the
Holly, and so make up that soft stone : And anything
ligneous remaining of the very hard timber, being all in-
crustated with this Marie, may it not thereby be guarded
from the action of the fire. April 16, 1675.

20 GARDENS— ORCHARDS

Some Hints for the Horticulture of Scot-
land by way of letter imparted to the
Publisher of the Philosophical Transac-
tions by Dr. J. Beal, & insert in the
Transactions. Vol. 10, Numb. 116, for
the year 1675. July 26, p. 861.

I had several times conference with Sir Rob. Moray B.M.
(who was an honour to his Countrey, & a blessing to the
place where he abode) concerning esculent & olitary Gardens
& (under one) nurseries of fruit trees, and other usefull
vegetables in Scotland. I represented that almost within my
memory, they are become the chieff relieff of England ; that
^tis lately found, that austere Fruits yeild the strong &
sprightfull Liquor, which resembles the Wine of tije Grape ;
that the return of gain from Gardens is great & speedy ;
Nurseries neither a chargeable nor a burthensome addition,
but a congruous engagement of the multitudes to pei*severe in
the noblest kind of Agriculture. Sir R. M. granted all that
I said ; and I am sure, that he acted and executed all that he
could for the good of his own Countrey & for England, &c.
f^. But, saith he, there are so many Rocks, and such bleak Winds
in Scotland, that they can hardly draw in the same Yoke
with England for Gardens & Orchards. I replied, that in
Devon & Cornwall they fenced their Gardens & Orchards with
Flanders furrs. And tall Holly from the sea Winds, and they
have lofty Firrs, and goodly pines in Scotland & New England
(where the Winds are as keen, & the snow & frosts as deep, &
as long lasting, as in many parts of Scotland) is yet full of
fruitfuU Orchards. And if Scotland be farther in the Norths
yet Norway is rich in Boscage ; & the seeds of the Hemlock-
tree, spruce ft cedars from New England, Newfoundland &
Virginia may perhaps rejoice in the exchange of the Northern
America for the North of this Island. And Scotland may
say Non tarn aversus equos nostra sol vertit ab orbe. The sun
affords them a longer summers day in the remotest North,
than at Rome. And tis a point of good Philosophy, and

NURSERIES 21

good Husbandry to find out, what vegetables are aptest to
make the better by that advantage. And Scotland hath no
need to borrow wit & Industry from their neighbours : Witness
their Linnen trade, their Fishery, their Mines, their Arts,
Artifices & Manufactures ; some of these as beneficial to them,
or soon may be so, as our famous and great staple-trade is,
at this day, to England. Comparatis comparandis. Briefly
the Summer-sun ariseth more early and shines as bright on
St. Andrews, as on the Roman Capitol ; & the Vatican is not
so near to Uranoburg as is Edinburgh. And their flowry
Philologei-s and learned Boetii, *,^ Buchanans, Barclays, and
hundreds more never resigned their verdant Laurels to Poli-
tians, Bembo''s or other Cis-Alpines. Nor do they shrink
from assisting the modem Restauration of solid real, &
operative Philosophy. To come close to our business, this I
told Sir R. M. I durst undertake, that when Edinburgh &
their chiefs towns and universities shall plant Eitchin gardens,
as we do now in England they shall receive their grateful
reward the first year, & bear the charges of their Nurseries
abundantly: & so hold on & within 7 years secure their
posterity of the benefit, & delight themselves with the fruit
of their pleasing labour. And thus one may drive on the
Wheel, which a thousand hands cannot stop, when it is
running on, & imploy thousands of poor at good work.

Some Observations made in Scotland by that £s.

ingenious Knight Sir George Mackenzie,

sent in a letter to Mr. Ja. Gregory,

& by him communicated to the Publisher

of the Philosophical Transactions & insert

in Vol. 10. Numb. 117, for the year 1675,

26 7ber. p. 396.

Sir, Of Earths I have little to say ; only one of our most
ordinary soyls for Barley-land is an Earth digged & mixed
with Beasts dung: In a place near my dwelling there is a

^ Refers to a sidenote in the MS. 4 * Hector Boetius, highly valued by
Erasmus.'

22 SOILS

plot of ground, less than one Acre, out of which, for these
many years past, Earth hath been digged for the said use ;
and in two years time it will grow up again, & fill the
excavated place so that it continually furnishes soyl for the
adjacent lands. Another like I have in a farm belonging to
myself, twenty miles distant from this, of the same nature fc
quality. Botli are a stiiF clayish Earth, of a dark colour fc
moist : both these places I have viewed these several years, Sc
have discerned this truth : It will grow a foot high in two
years. Nothing makes our land give greater increase of
Barley than Sea Wrack (Alga Mariiia) but lands often used
to this manure, yeilds but bad Oats, & small quantity, & the
husks both of the barley & oats, that grow on such lands are
thicker than those that grow on other lands, & these grains
have also greater mixture of Darnel.

The increase that some places in our Isles do yeild is almost
incredible considering the Climate & soyl. for some will
ordinarily yeild sixteen or eighteen fold, as very honest &
credible Farmers have often informed me from their continual
experience : And most of those lands that yeild so well, are
of a very sandy soyl, & only manured with sea wrack. I
have a peice of land in Lochbroom Parish that yeilds con-
tinually every year plentiful 1 Crops of Barley, without ever
having so much as one load of Manure, or any kind of addition
laid on it : And this it hath done past memory. I have seen
the corn of it several years ; nor doth the ground grow less,
nor is it exhausted by yeilding such plenty of com and straw,
though it receives no addition. Whether it be that Rains
wash down matter equivalent to Manure, from the adjacent
hills, which yet cannot be discerned, though looked after ; or
whether its fertility proceeds from prolifick Exhalations from
a subterraneous cause, I will not determine.
t4» There are also some fields, that appear to be nothing else
but a gathering of small Pebbles, insomuch that Earth cannot
be well discerned amongst them. Yet do they yeild abimd-
ance of good com especially of Barley; and more than
contiguous lands, that are not stony. Whether this be from
accidental heat contracted by the pressure of these stones; or
from sulphureous salin emanations from them; which yet I

INK— MOLUCCO BEANS 2S

could never force out of them ; or whether it be from the
repercussion of the fermenting Exhalations that ascend, which
they force into the portion of the Mould, that is mixt with
them I leave to the Judicious to consider.

As for our herbs, I have nothing extraordinary. All I find
here, are in history, excepting one, which grows on stony
shoars : but because ^tis not by me, I will not venture to give
you its description now, lest it should be too imperfect. One
particular I took notice of, which perhaps is no novelty to
you, as it is none to our Highlanders ; but since it is to me, I
sliall relate it. When they want ink, they take the root of
this Iris palustris lutea (yellow, Water flower de Luce) & infuse
it twenty four [hours] in clear fountain water, others boyl it a
little. The water will not be tinged to any height. Then they
take a rough white Pebble ; and rub it continually in the water
on a knife or any peice of clean steel ; & in less than an hours
time, the water will become very black, and tolerable good
Ink. This I oft practised.

Our Forresters alledge, that when Deer are wounded, they
ly on a certain Herb, which grows plentifully in our Forrests;
and that by its vertue, the bleeding is stanched, & the wound
healed. I did take a quantity of it, & reduced it to a salve^
with Wax ft butter. Its effect was that it healed too sud-
denly, so that I durst not adventure to use it in any deep
wound : But for superficial scars, it hath a very sudden opera-
tion. At that time I did not know this Herb by any name,
but now I find it to be Asphodehis Lancastrice verus of John-
stoun, or the Lancashire AsphodiU.

I cannot omit to add here, that 'tis very ordinary to find
Molucco beans on the shore of the Lewes, or other our Western
Isles. They are found fast to the stalks, which the common
people supposed to be sea-tangles, and laughed at me, when I 2S»
said, they were land beans. Which made [me] to write to the
£arle of Seafort ; whilst he lived in the Lewes, that I supposed
these apparent Tangles were the ham of the beans, which by
long lying in the sea, might acquire that likeness. His Lord-
ship examined the matter & found it so. And he likewise sent
to roe a peice of Cabbage tree, that was found on that shore.
It is observable, that the Kernels of these Nuts will be fresh

24 IMITATING MAN

A: sound, ft the people make boxes for snuff of the Bean-husk.
Now, considering the scituation of those Isles with respect to
any place where Molucco beans grow, let the observers of
Tides consider, what reciprocations must be imagined to ad-
just the Eastern and Western constant currents of the Main,
with the wasting of these Beans on places that ly so far out of
the road of any of the direct Tides : And if they grow only
about the Molucco Isles, or in no place on this side the iGquator,
it would seem more probable, that they came by the Northern
passage, than any other way. And their freshness in the
Kernel seem rather to have been kept in the cold Conservatory
than in the warm baths of the other Progress.

Tarbut July 9, 1675.

Extract of a Letter written from Aberdeen,

Febr. 17, 167f concerning a man of a strange

Imitating nature, as also of several human

Calculus's of an unusual bigness, insert in

the 12 volume of the Philosophical Trasac-

tions numb. 134, for the year 1677. p. 842.

Sir, I am very sensible of the great civility, wherewith you
were pleased to entertain Mr. Scougall & me, when we waited
on you last summer, and shall be ready, on all occasions, to
give you that account you then desired of things Philosophical,
that may occur here, to promote that noble design you have in
hand. I remember we had then occasion to speak of a man in
this Countrey very remarkable for somewhat peculiar in his
temper, that inclines him to imitate unawares all the gestures
Sc motions of those with whom he converseth. We then had
never seen him ourselves. Since our return we were together
at Strathbogie, where he dwells and notwithstanding all we
had heard of him before, were somewhat surprized with the
oddness of this Dotrel-quality. This Donald Monro, for that
is his name, being a little old So very plain man, of a thin
slender body, hath been subject to this infirmity, as he told
ne, us, from his very Infancy. He is very loathe to have it
observed, and therefore casts down his eyes, when he walks in

LARGE CALCULI 25

the streets, and turns them aside, when he is in company. We
had made several trials, before he perceived our design ; and
afterward had much ado to make him stay. We caressed him
as much as we could, & had then the opportunity to observe,
that he imitated not only the scratching of the head but also
the wringing of the hands, wiping of the nose stretching forth
of the arms &« And we needed not strain complement to per-
suade him to be covered : for he still put oiF & on as he saw us
do, and all this with so exactness, & yet with such natural &
unaffected air, that we could not so much as suspect he did
it on design. When we held both his hands & caused another
to make such motions, he pressed to get free : But when we
would have known more particularly how he found himself
affected, he could only give us this simple answer, That it
vexed his heart ft his brain.

Besides this, I took occasion lately to visit a poor Woman in
the neighbouring Parish, who hath been of a long time sadly
-afflicted with the Gravel, & hath passed four stones of an
unusual bigness ; of which I have one by me, which though it
be not the greatest of the four, is yet more than five inches
about the one way, & four the other, which if you please, shall
be sent you. They are all oval ; the first and a part of the
second were smooth; but the other two very rough; & the
last the biggest, which being come away about Christmass
last, was bloudy on one side, when I saw it. This puts me in
mind of that stone of a prodigious bigness, which was found
last year in a Gentleman^s bladder in this countrey after his
decease, weighing two & thirty ounces I am Sir your humble
servant, Geo: Garden.

An Account of the maimer of making of MALT
in Scotland by Sir Robert Moray, insert
in the 12 vol. of the Philosophical Transac-
tions Numb. 142, for the Moneths of Deer.,
January & February 1678 p, 1069.

Malt is there made of no other Grain, but Barley. Whereof iW.
there are two kinds one which hath four Rows of grains in the

26 BARLEY— MALT

Ear, the other two Rows. The first is the more commonly
used ; but the other makes the best Malt.

The more recently Barley hath been threshed, it makes the
better Malt. But if it hath been threshed six weeks or up-
wards, it proves not good Malt ; unless it be kept in one equal
temper; wherof it easily fails, especially if it be kept up
against a Wall : for that which lies in the midle of the heap
is freshest; that which lies on the outsides & at the top i»
overdryed ; that which is next the Wall shoots forth ; & that
which is at the bottom rots ; so that when it comes to be made
in Malt, that which is spoiled, does not come well as they call
it, that is, never gets that mellow temper Malt ought to have,,
and so spoils all the rest. For thus some grains come well^
some not at all, some half, & some too much.

The best way to preserve threshed barley long in good
temper, is not to separate the Chaff from it. But as long as
it is unthreshed it is always good. Brewers used to keep
their Barley in large rooms, on boarded floors, laid about a
foot in depth & so turned over, now & then with scoops.

Barley that hath been over-heated in the stacks or Bams^
before it be separated from the straw, will never prove good for
Malt, nor any other use. But, though it heat a little, after
it is threshed & kept in the chaff, it will not be the worse, but
rather the better for it : for then it will come the sooner ; and
more equally.

A mixture of Barley, that grew on several grounds, never
proves good Malt, because it comes not equally, so that the
best Barley to make Malt of, is that which grows in one field,,
and is kept & threst together.

Take then good Barley, newly threshed & well purged
from the Chaff and putt hereof eight bolls, that is about six
English Quarters in a stone Trough. Where let it infuse,
till the Water be of a bright reddish colour ; Which will be
in about three days, more or less, according to ye moistness
or dryness, smallness or bigness of the grain, season of the
year, or temper of the Weather. In summer Malt never
makes well. In winter it will need longer infusion than in the
spring or autumn.

It may be known when steeped enough, by other marks.

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beside the colour of the Water ; as the excessive swelling of
the Grain : or if over steeped, by too much softness ; being,
when in the right temper, like that barley, which is prepared t8.
to make broth of; or the barley, called by some Urge Wonder.

When the Barley is suflSciently steeped, take it out of the
trough & lay it on heaps, so let the Water drain from it.
Then after two or three hours turn it with a scoop, and lay it
in a new Heap about twenty or twenty four Inches deep.
This Heap they call the Coming Heap. And in the managing
of this heap aright, lies the greatest skill. In this Heap, it
will ly fourty hours, more or less, according to the fore-
mentioned qualities of the Grain ftc. before it come to the right
Temper of Malt ; which that it may all do equally, is most to
be desired.

Whilst it lies in this Heap, it is to be carefully looked to, after
the first fifteen or sixteen hours, for about that time the Grains
will begin to put forth the root, which when -they have equally
and fully done, the Malt must, within an hour after, be
turned over with a scoop, otherwise the Grains will begin to
put forth the blade or spire also ; which by all means must be
prevented, for hereby the Malt will be utterly spoiPd both as
to pleasantness of tast and strength.

If the Malt come not equally, because that which lies in the
middle being warmest, will usually come first, turn it over, so as
the outmost may be inmost, and so leave it till all be come alike.

So soon as tiie Malt is sufficiently come, turn it over, &
spread it to a depth not exceeding five or six inches. And by
that time it is all spread out, begin and turn it over and over
again, three or four times. Afterwards turn it over in like
manner, once in four or five hours, making the Heap thicker
by degrees & continuing so to do constantly for the space of
forty eight hours at least.

This frequent turning of it over, cools, dries & deads the
Grain, whereby it becomes mellow, melts easily in brewing
and then separates entirely from the husk.

Then throw up the Malt into a Heap, as high as you can,
where let it ly, till it grow as hot as your hand can endure it.
which usually comes to pass, in some thirty hours space, This
perfects the sweetness and mellowness of the Malt.

28 HIRTA

£9. After the Malt is sufficiently heated, throw it abroad to
cool, & turn it over again about six or eight after, & and then
dry it upon the Kiln. Where, after one fire, which must serve
for twenty four hours, give it another more slow, and if need
be a third, for if the Malt be not thoroughly dryed, it cannot
be well ground, neither will it dissolve well in the brewing,
and the Ale it makes, will be red, bitter, So will not keep.

The best fewell is Peat The next Charcoal made of
Pitcoall or Anders. Heath, Broom & Furzes are naught. If
there be not enough of one kind, bum the best first, for that
gives the strongest impression, as to the tast.

An Account of the ISLES HIRTA &
RON A given to me by the Lord Register
Sir George Mackenzie of Tarbut, as he
had it from intelligent persons dwelling on
the place.

The Island of Hirta, of all the Isles about Scotland lyeth
farthest out into the sea, is very mountanous & not acces-
sible but by climbing. It is incredible, what number of fowls,
frequent the rocks there ; so far as one can see, the sea is
covered with them, and when they rise, they darken the sky,
they are so numerous. They are ordinarily catched this way :
A man lies upon his back with a long Pole in his hand, &
knocketh them down, as they fly over him. There be many
sorts of these fowls, some of them of strange shapes, among
which there is one they call the Gare-fowl, which is bigger
than any Goose, and hath Eggs as big almost as those of the
Ostrich. Amongst the other Commodities they export out
of the Island, this is none of the meanest, they take the fat
of these fowls that frequent the Island and stuff the stomack
of this fowl with it, which they preserve by hanging it near
the Chimney, where it is dryed with the smoke and they sell it
to their neighbours on the Continent as a Remedy they use
for aches and pains.

Their sheep upon that Island of Hirta are far different from
all others, having long leggs, long horns, and instead of wool.

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a blewish hair upon them, for the figure and description, it
seems to approach in resemblance to the Om Chilensis^ some
natural Historians make mention of. Of the milk of these ^.
sheep, they make Butter, and a sort of cheese which my Lord
Register saith, pleaseth his tast better then Hollands cheese.
They have no salt there, but what they make by burning of
seatangle which is very black. Their greatest trade is in
feathers they sell and the exercise they affect most, is climbing
of steep Rocks, he is the prettiest man who ventures upon the
most inaccessible, though all they gain, is the Eggs of the
Fowls, and the honour to dy, as many of their Ancestours, by
breaking of their necks which Pliny observes of these people,
which he calls Hyperborei.

The Island of Rona hath for many generations been in-
habited by five families, which seldome exceed thirty souls in
all. They have a kind of Commonwealth among them, in so
far if any of them have more children than another, he that
hath fewer, taketh from the other what makes his number
equal!, and the excrescence of above thirty souls is sent with
the summer boat to the Lewes to the Earle of Seafort their
Master, to whom they pay yearly some quantity of meal
stiched up in sheepskins; and feathers of sea fowls. They
have no fewel for fire upon the Island, but by special pro-
vidence of God, the sea yearly casts in so much timber as
serves them. Their sheep there have Wool but of a blewish
colour.

There is a Chappel in the midst of the Isle, where they meet
twice or thrice a day. One of the families is hereditary
Bedell, and the Master of that, stands at the Altar and
prayeth the rest kneel upon their knees & join with him.
Their Religion is the Romish Religion.

There is always one, who is Cheif and commands the rest, &
they are so well satisfied with their condition, that they
exceedingly bewaill the condition of these, as supernumerary,
they must send out of the Island.

so MINES— MINERALS

An Account of MINES & MINERALS in
Scotland Out of a Manuscript belonging to

COIXONELL BORTHWICK.

The like Gold hath not often been seen or heard of to be
gotten within Christendome, as these of Scotland tried &
reported to be worth 76000 "^ sterling per Tun.

In all these places following (to wit in Crawford moor Sc
SL Frier moor in Clidsdale, on Robert moor and MannockMoor
in Nidesdale, upon Glengaber Water in Henderland, with the
forrest of Atrick, all which places are tryed by me) natural
gold is to be found out, & you shall alwayes find skilfuU seekers
and discoverers thereof dwelling near unto these foresaid
places, for to use the Trough or Skower ; but not very perfit
in the Buddie, nor any at all in the Art of Extracting.

Some of these laborious Scotsmen know the natural gold
perfectly, and too well, I mean, that Gold gotten in Valleys,
not upon solid places viz: upon high mountains & mosses : but
they know only the gold in the remote places, which the
Scripture speaketh of in Job the 28th Chapter, which the
Vultures eye hath not seen.

They know also the Gold gotten upon the superficies of the
Earth, upon the skirts of the high mountains, & on both the
sides of the Cleuchs, & thus also it is gotten at the West Indies
&®. as hereafter shall be proved, & by whom &•. Even these
Precedents, if there were no more, were able to encourage either
Governours, Superiours, Artists or industrious workmen, of
what degree so ever they be, to presume as far, nay to attempt
as much, as I have before enterprised in Scotland, hoping
th^n to have received some acknowledgement from his Majesty,
which I confess was promised but not performed : for God took
away my friends unto his mercy, before they could do me the
good which was promised. And thus was I forced to remain
in distress till the Honourable Lord Willoughby my Master
did pity me, and had some compassion upon me &®.

And now I purpose to dilate unto you, how or after what
maner in times past near unto Rivers sides, within Combs &

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Valleys, natural Gold hath been gotten in the Kingdom of
Scotland upon the aforesaid Moors &^.

The vulgar sort of Scotsmen usually sought for it upon
these Moors after a great rain, and after the Speat of Rain had
run his course & this rain or force of water brought down no
other Gold, than what before had been removed by the force
of waves flouds, and that Gold was and is called superficial
Gold to this day.

Even our Scots Gold, which is now found in Stems or in St
grains and peices, did discend or was washed down in Valleys,
Combs, Skirts of Hills or Cleuchs; even untill this present
day it hath lien still & not removed, except after a great speat
of rain, the force whereof doth break & wear the superficies of
the Earth, but not the solid Earth after which the Scots men
and women & children run to seek for it, and do find it still
even untill this day. And thereby they find with it also the
saxere stones in great abundance and also much of the Cala^
minar stones, but the sallineor stone is as small as the mustard
seed ; and some like meal and the sapphire stone in lumps &
like unto fowls eyes, or birds eggs. And the strangest of all
is this, there is found natural Gold linked fast unto the
Sapphire stone, even as veins of LfCad-ore & white sparrs do
grow together &*.

But t|)eir usual manner is, when they seek for Gold in Combs
A: Valleys to frame or make a long seuch or scowring place into
which they bring the stream of water, to scowr away the light
earth from the heavy sandy earth ; and to cull away the great
stones from the heavy sand, which sand or heavy earth they
scrape into their Trough or Tray, and by stirring it and weish-
ing the same often, there is found both rain-gold, flat gold
pale gold and black gold : yet all these be natural gold.

And also all these are called perfect compacted gold made
in the beginning of the world & ingendered with these stones
aforesaid amongst Rocks & Craigs, without the help of sun,
moon or stars.

I happened in my Scots Voyage on a book of records at
Crawford John in Scotland, wherein was registered, that many
poor Inhabitants there, were lately imployed at work by Mr.
Cornelius a Lapidary in London. This Cornelius was sent

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thither to discover the golden bed or vein, at the charge of
certain Merchants in London, who procured unto him Queen
Elizabeths Signet unto the Kings Majesty that now is King of
SS. England &^ then only of Scotland. At sight whereof it
seemed, that he was forthwithall admitted to proceed with his
Majesties favour and Consent of the Honourable Council of
Scotland.

And then Cornelius went to view the said Mountains in
Cliddesdale and Nidesdale, upon which Mountains he got a
small tast of small Gold. This was a Whetstone to sharpen
his knife upon, and this natural Gold tasted so sweet as the
Honey, or Honeycomb in his mouth. And then he consulted
with his friends at Edinburgh, and by his persuasions pro-
voked them to adventure with him, shewing them first the
natural Gold, which he called the temptable Gold, or alluring
Gold. It was in sterns & some like unto Birds eyes and eggs.
He compared it unto a womans eye, which enticeth her Joes
into her bosom, and Cornelius so earnestly persuaded his late
frequented friends in Scotland that he induced them to
adventure also with him. And I remember in one place of
that book he saith If there were such an evident token, or
such an apparent shew of natural Gold, as this which then he
shewed them, within any part of the Countrey where he was
born being a German bom, then the whole Countrey would
confederate and not rest, til young & old that were able, be
set to work thereat, and to discover this treasure house, from
whence this Gold descended : and the people from ten years old
unto ten times ten years old should work thereat ; no charges
whatsoever should be spared, till mountains and mosses were
turned into Valleys & Dales, but this Treasure house should
be discovered.

And where as now the Countrey of Scotland & England
both are oppressed with poor people, which beg from door to
door for want of imployment ; and no man looketh unto it,
and Idlemen and Souldiers, for want of imployment ; are some
forced to rob, some to steal & so come by an untimely end,
whereas by labour others get bread rayment &^. And that
some should dig or delve, some pick or hack, some wash and
scour, untill Mountains & hills were turned to dales; and

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some should turn Rivers, Brooks & Cleuchs from their courses
A: so to run over mountains ; but that they would know from
whence such a Precedent as this is, being natural Grold, doth
come, some part whereof is gotten by me.

Upon whose instigation, his Scots friends hearkened unto S4.
him and yeilded unto Cornelius. Whereupon five other
Partneps besides himself agreed together. A new Grant wajs
procured unto those six Copartners of all the Gold and Silver
Mines throughout the Kingdom of Scotland & the said Gold
mines were divided amongst the six Partners as followeth
viz: —

The Earle of Morton had ten parts.

Mr. Ro* Ballenden, then Secretary had ten parts.

Abraham Peterson a Dutchman at Edr. had ten parts.

James Reid a Burgess of Edr. had five parts.

And Cornelius reserved to himself & his London Friends

which adventured with him also ten parts.

And they all consulted together, persuading sundry of their
other friends & kinsfolk, & their families to adventure each
of them a proportion of moneys, again to set upon & discover
the Gold mines in Crawford moor & other Moors there-
abouts ; and so each man, according to his disbursements to
have his part. And being all willing, they consented to-
gether: some brought corn, some victuals, & some malt or
meal besides moneys and amongst them all 5000 lib. Scots.

And then Cornelius was chosen to govern & direct both
artists & workmen about that business. But he nor they ever
sought for it in solid places, but in Combs & Valleyes where
a long time before, it had lien, being washed down since the
General Deluge. And Cornelius had the Broad Seal of Scot-
land & England for it, and was called the Superiour of His
Majesties Gold mines. He had authority to punish oflPenders,
he had a Commission to take up Workmen in England, by
consent of the Honourable Council of England, to go with
him to Scotland. And the noble Earle of Moray then Regent
of Scotland did also animate and second him, so that Cornelius
grew strong in men, and victual and good store of Gold.

And Cornelius was obliged by force and vertue of his Scots

vou 111. c

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Commission, to bring in all such Gold or Silver, as by any of
them should be gotten, into his Majesties Minthouse at Edr.,
^3- there to be coyned upon peril of his Majesties displeasure. At
which time, within the space of 30 days, they caused to be
conveyed unto the Kings Minthouse, half a stone weight of
natural Gold, viz. 8 pound weight worth 450 sterling. And
it is called Trone Weight : and a Scots Stone Weights is still
16 pound weight ther.

And the Workmen got gold sometime also by themselves of
their own charge, with the toleration of the Superiour, and
they sold the same gold for a Mark Sterling per ounce, called
in Scotland eight pound Scots, and when they sold it at
dearest, they had but twenty shillings Sterling per ounce
weight thereof,

Cornelius had six score men at work in Valleys & Dales. He
imployed both lads & lasses, idle men and women which
before went a begging. He profited by their work, & they
lived well and contented : and he bought their Gold, which
they washed & scoured for a little money, even for a Mark
Sterling, which now is worth 6 Marks sterling per ounce.

And about that time the Earle of Moray, being Regent,
deceased, and then Cornelius was forced to renew his Com-
mission & had his Grant from the Earle of Morton next
Regent, who also obliged Cornelius to bring all such natural
Gold, as he thereafter should get, unto the Minthouse at Edr,
where it was afterwards coyned into 3^^ sterling peices of au
ounce weight each peice. Much Gold was then bought from
the poor workmen for twenty shillings the ounce weight.

John Gibson of Crawfordtown yet liveth, who was a work-
man before, and now is a Washer or streamer for Gold in
sundry places. He got much Gold in sterns, and feeling Gold,
he had both great Gold like unto Birds eyes, and Birds eggs
which he sold there for 20* sterling the ounce weight. And he
is now, if he be alive 92 years of age : and he sware for a truth,
that the greatest Gold that ever he got, was upon Glengaber
S6. Water within the Forrest of Atrick and he sold it then for
six shillings eight pennies sterling the ounce weight to the
Earle of Morton.

In the same Book I read of one Abraham Grey, who was a

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Dutchman, before that time dwelling in London. He was
also registred therein and his works that he digged at the
Gold mines. He brought with him certain Artsmen from
England, & others of his own Countreymen unto Scotland,
which were at London. Upon a certain intelligence, hearing
so good a report of the Gold of Scotland, he sold much of his
own goods, & therwith made a certain sum of money & pro-
cured others his Countreymen to adventure with him : & he
went with authority to supply the said Gold mines in Scot-
land. This Abraham Grey hired many poor Inhabitants
there as it is registered in that Book of Record, & he gave
the poor men 4** sterling the day to find themselves therwith,
which contented them as well as 12** doth content the English
Workmen in these dayes.

He had plenty of victuals in his storehouse at Winlock-
head, which now is in decay ; he was supplied with all sorts of
necessary tools; the Workmen washed & scowred in Valleys
Sc Combs; he never sought the Mountains or Mosses upon
high Hills for a solid place, nor for a bed or vein thereof.

And in these V^alleys at Winlockhead, he got a good
quantity of natural Gold ; he payed all his Workmen weekly;
A he lent to diverse men money before hand, as it is written
in that Parchment book, saying, With this natural Gold '
gotten in Great beards time, (for so was he called, because of his
great long Beard, which he could have bound about his midle)
was made a very fair deep Bason, without any addition of any
other Gold at Edr. in the Canogate Street. It was made
by a Scotsman & contained by estimation within the brims
thereof, an English Gallon of Liquor. The same Bason was
of clean, neat, natural Gold. It was then filled up to the
brim with coyned peices of Gold, called Unicorns which Bason
& peices both were presented to the French King by the said
Regent the Earle of Morton, who signified upon his honour,
to the King saying My Lord, behold this Bason & all that
therein is ; it is natural Gold gotten within this Kingdom of
Scotland by a Dutchman named Abraham Grey. Abraham
Grey was standing by & affirmed it upon a solemn oath. But
he said unto the said King that he thought it did ingender &
increase within the earth & that he observed it so to do by the S7.

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influence of the heavens. And he said, that it increased and
grew more and more : but neither by the power of the sun,
moon nor starrs, but by the omnipotent power of God as he
thought : and then the Earl of Mortoun stood up saying I
also believe, that it ingenders within the Earth, but only of
these two Elements viz : the Water & the Earth ; and that
it is & was made perfect malleable Gold from the beginning
by God the Creatour thereof but it was not, nor is it pure fine
Gold, without any alay, as was Ophir Gold. But, said he,
I am certain that all this Gold viz. the cup and all the peices
therein are of natural Scots Gold without any other compound
or addition.

My opinion ^ is and shall so continue, being sufficiently per-
suaded by an Instance thereof, that neither King, Prince,
Superiour nor Governour within Christendom can produce
either better natural Gold or the like to this I myself brought
of late to His Majesty out of Scotland.

M' George Bowes an English Gentleman procured a Com-
mission into Scotland unto the Gold mines and I happened
on a book of his making in England. I compared the same,
(having carried it with me into Scotland) with the report of
the Countrey; and the Countreymen at Winlockhead, said
It is so, and most true, that M' Bowes discovered a small Vein
of Gold, which had much small gold in it, upon Winlock-
head. But he sware all his Workmen to keep it secret, and
never to disclose the same unto the King of Scotland nor his
Council : for so he had promised to do at his departure from
the Queen of England, if he found it. And M' Bowes by-
force and vertue of the Queens Letters to the Council of
Scotland, had a new warrant granted from the Lords of Scot-
land, by vertue whereof he was suffered quietly to dig and
delve, where he would, so it were after another fashion, than
M' Bulmer & his men did before dig & delve.

And M' Bowes digged sundry shafts in solid places upon
the Mountains on Robert moor at Winlockhead, & he often-
times found good feeling Gold and much small Gold. And
he gave a great part thereof away, ten or twelve ounces, to

^ * One Atkinson's opinion ' [sidenote in MS.].

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make friends, unto Lords & owners of the ground ; & he gave
to merchants 8c Gentlemen in England as much more as before
he had done in Scotland ; and he kept many Workmen both S8.
English and Scots & payed them with the same Gold.

He built dwellinghouses there for himself &; his people, but
none for his Scots Workmen. Others sought their Victuals
&; Lodgings far oiF from the said Work which was a hinderance,
and the Workmen had every one store of gold. But M'
Bulmers men found little or none, but what they bought from
M' Bowes men, saying they sought to discover places fit for a
Prince, not for a subject.

And when they had filled their purses, then he caused the
said shaft to be filled up again, 8c swore his Agents and Work-
men all to secrecy & to disclose the same upon their lives,
whereunto they were forced & did so and most especially to
keep it close from the King's Majesty 8c Councill of Scotland ;
8c this was confessed by some of M' Bowes chiefest servants
since he died. And so shortly he did return to the Queens
Majesty in England, unto whom in all secret manner he said,
that the trust committed unto him by her Majesty, was per-
formed and concealed saying that he had found out a small
Vein thereof and Behold said he, and see of it. for this even
all this is out of the same Vein. With that he shewed a long
Purse full thereof 8c it was then admired at by all that saw,
8c it was valued to be worth sevenscore pounds sterling with-
out melting, but he had before given much thereof away
privily. This Purse had much of the salineers stone in it.

He said unto the Queens Majesty How long it will continue.
Madam, I know not, but I have made it very sure, 8c hid it
up till my next going thither.

Her Majesty liked well thereof, and kept it secret from all
others as he said, giving thanks to M' Bowes for his true
service therein. And for that gift, she received it of him,
but promised triply to reward it. 8c said that the next spring
he should go again thither at her Majesties only charges, to
seek for a greater Vein thereof, and commanded him to pre-
pare himself so to do ; that store might be had.

He went home rich to his own Countrey in the North of
England where he dwelt, but unfortunately, in riding to see S9.

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the Copper Works and Mines in Cumberland at Keswick, as
he was going down into the deep Pits, the Ladder broke, and
the Earth fell in upon him, and so he was bruised to death ;
Sc thus he left his life, and the Vein of Gold not since dis-
covered in Scotland.

M' Daniel Heisister one of the Masters of the said Copper
mines was then going down after him into the ground, & fi^U
but a little way & hurt himself, but not unto death jet he
was sore bruised with the fall of the same Ladder, but he
escaped, praised be God therefore, I wrought with him since,
and he told me it for a truth.

And then I ^ travelling further into the North parts, had
certain intelligence thereof, hoping to have discovered that
small Vein again. I was moved at my own adventure, to go
Sc see if I could find out the same, which before M' Bowes had
hid up. And I sought it diligently, but I could not get any
of M' Bowes men, that there wrought before. And want of
means to harrow that ground, which M' Bowes had turned
up, made me depart from that plsjce unto Short-cleuch-braes,
to the same place where George Parkhead was slain with the
fall of the Brae after a great Weet, & he was found three
days after that and had good store of gold about him. He
was alwayes before accounted a poor man, but he was buried
better than any of his Kinred had been of long time before.

All the last Gold of Scotland, which I brought & presented
unto the Kings Majesties own hands, in certain sundry places
mingled with the Sappar, Calaminar, Saxere & salineer stones,
was gotten at Short-cleuch-braes. And the other Gold
which I had in sundry places, where I made sundry trials, I
sent by my Cousin John Atkinson of Westminster to London.
And M' John Moray of the Kings Bedchamber, had most of
my Scots naturall Gold to keep, by his Majesties command*
ment. I never could get the same Gold again, nor see it, nor
get any reasonable content for the same. I offered to put in
40, security that it should be restored again to M' Moray so that
he would be pleased to let it be but seen to Merchants of
London, that had promised to adventure with me, for want
whereof, as I think, they fell quite from me, excusing the
* 'Atkinson comes to Scotland' [sidcnote in MS.].

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cause thereof, and alledging that it is more fitting for Princes,
than subjects. And therefore, said some of them to me, If
thou wilt adventure in any other nation of a hotter climate,
we will take better advice thereof, & we will both respect
yourself & your knowledge : for we love to adventure, where
our forefathers have done before us. And, to tell you the
naked truth of it, we have no mind in Scotland to adventure.
And thus much for the Conference between and myself & my
other friends at London.

The late Queen Elizabeth of famous memory was often
possessed with a good opinion of the golden Mines in Scotland
viz. about some forty years by past. Long before M' Bulmer
had intelligence, one Cornelius Devosse a most cunning picture
maker & excellent in art for trial of Minerals and Mineral-
stones, sometimes dwelling in London a young man well
acquainted with M** Nicholas Hilliard a Goldsmith, then prin-
cipal drawer of small Pictures to the late Queen Elizabeth,
procured the same Hilliard to adventure with him into Scot-
land & to send his servant & friend as an Agent thither,
by name Arthur Van brounckhurst : for at that time there
was a great report and fame, that went of the natural Gold
gotten within the Kingdom of Scotland.

Brounckhurst being known to be a good Artist, skilfull Sc
weel seen in all sorts of stones, especially in Minerals & Mineral
stones ; M' Hilliard ceased not, untill he had procured a Patent,
which was granted unto Cornelius Devosse, without molesta-
tion to seek, as others before had done, for natural Gold in
Scotland. And then M' Hilliard & Cornelius Devosse made
upon reasonable conditions an 'Assignment unto Arthur Van
Brounckhurst who after that, power full, set sundry Workmen
to work without any trouble or molestation.

And Arthur Van-Brounckhurst had a further privilege than
others that were before him. He was admitted to bring with
him into England a good quantity of Gold unrefined 8c without.
any other dressing than was used by water and to put the^/«
same stones. Minerals or Mineral stones, and the gold that
therewithall dwelled, safely into a barrel or vessel fit for that
purpose.

For Cornelius & M' Hilliard had the like from thence

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before, sundry times. And Van Bronckhurst and they two had
often out of other Nations the like sort of gold, & they were
informed by men of good experience travelling through
forreign nations, affirming that as sand and gravel have their
several beds within the superficies of the earth in sundry
places within England; even so are there Beds of Gold ^
Silver in forreign Countreys where they have travelled. And
so Craggs & Rocks have their several Veins oi" beds of Ewer,
Iron, Copper, & Tin, Mines within the Bowels of the Earth in
the kingdoms of England, Scotland & Ireland or in the Princi-
palities of Wales. Even so Gold and Silver have their Veins
in Rocks amongst the Waters in the Earth &; under the
Waters in the ground. And they hoped in that manner to
find out the Bed or Vein of Gold in Scotland. And this
opinion I hold to be good : for I ever will be of the same
mind, that there is both a Bed Sc Vein of Gold in Scotland.

And now, upon the event, what is written of Arthur Van
Brounckhurst. viz. he searched sundry Moors & found Gold
in sundry places; but he was forced to leave it all at the
Minthouse in Scotland by special command from his Majesty
being then in Minority. Whereas before it was conditioned
betwixt M' Hilliard & Cornelius of the one part, & Van
Brounckhurst of the other part ; that the said Brounckhurst
should pay the full valuation for all such natural Gold as
should be gotten by him in Scotland, unto the King in
Minority or unto the Regent for the use of his Majesty.
And to that purpose, he had both Gold & Silver store out
of England, so to perform it, as by his Patent he was obliged
to do. And it is written that the Earle of Morton, being
then Regent, would not give way unto Van Brounckhurst his
Patent, although the said Brounckhurst became a suiter, at
least for the space of Four Moneths, & did not prevaill unto
this day. And so at last, he was forced to become one of his
49, Majesties sworn servants at ordinary in Scotland, to draw all
• the small & great Pictures for his Majesty. And by this
means M*" Hilliard & Cornelius Devosse lost all their charges,
& never since got any recompence, to M' Hilliards great
hinderance, as he saith, who yet liveth, & confirmeth the same.

Now will I write concerning M' Bulmer. In the late Queen

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Elizabeths Heign M' Bulmer was well impowered by letters of
Warranty with a Patent granted by Her Majesty in England
sc from the Kings Majesty of Scotland, there to make an
Adventure, 8c seek for the Gold 8c Silver Mines in any place
within that Kingdome especially within these five Moors or
Forrests following, viz. 1 Upon the Manrock Moor he had
Workmen 8c Labourers to search out the natural Gold in
Niddesdale and got there some small quantity thereof, but he
built no house there to dwell in, which was an hinderance.

a Upon Winlock-Water, on Robert Moor, likewise in Nides-
dale, he caused searche diligently for natural Gold, and got
sometimes a pretty quantity together. He brought home a
Water-course there, to wash and scour the natural Gold from
the Earth that had before been descended from the Mountains,
ever since Noahs floud : neither built he houses there to dwell
in, but they all went to the Leadhill unto Thomas Flouds his
house to diet. Whereas M' Bowes had there built a dwelling
house, that might have sufficed him ; yet he repaired it not.
But some say that he also found out the suspected Vein of
Gold, of which M' Bowes had discovered: a good part or
quantity he brought thereof unto the Queen of England, but
had not the same in abundance which I had believe.

8. Upon Frier-Moor or Glangonner Water, within Cliddes-
dale M' Bulmer hunted for Gold, &; got there reasonable good
store ; & upon Glangonner Water he built a very fair Countrey
house to dwell in, he furnished it fitting for himself 8c his
family. He kept therein great Hospitality; he purchased
Lands 8c Grounds round about it; he kept thereupon many
Cattle, as horses, kine, sheep, &^. And he brought home
there a Water-Course for the washing 8c cleaning of Gold. By 4%
the help thereof he got much stragling Gold, on the skirts of
the hills, 8c in the Valleys, but none in solid places, which main-
tained himself then in great pomp : and thereby he kept open
house for all comers 8c goers, as is reported ; he feasted all
sorts of people that came thither.

4. Upon Short-Cleuch Water, on Crawford Moor, he brought
home another goodly Water Course, & intended to make there
sundry Damms to contain Water for the Buddies, 8c for
Scowrers, for the washing of gold; 8c he often found store

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thereof & purposed to have built there another dwelling house
and storehouse. But it is said that his Hospitality & want of
Frugality were the Thieves that burst in, & so robbed his
house, & cut his purse bottom clean away. And thus he
consumed himself 8c wasted what he did get in Gold, which
was much both of great and small Gold, having got as much
Gold there, as might have royally maintained three times sa
many men as he did keep.

5. From Short-Cleuch Water he removed unto Long Cleuch
braes or Long Cleuchhead, up the great Hill, to seek Gold in
solid places, where he discovered a string thereof but there he
wanted a Water Course to help him. This Vein had plenty of
the Sapparstone in it, which sometimes held natural Gold a
little, not much. But the sallineer stones that were contained
in that Vein at Long Cleuch head held much silver, & may
prove a rich Mine, if it be followed by such as know the nature
thereof, viz. the Minerals. It is said That Vein was somewhat
powdered with small Gold, and therefore called Powdered
Gold. It was a Vein discovered by Master Bulmer, and is
not to be called a Bed of Gold, as is in some places to be found :
for the Bed is of another fashion.

The cause why they removed from Short Cleuchbraes to
Long Cleuch head was, for that the Workmen had been
shodding, hunting & chasing after a peice or two of great
Gold which they found there within two foot of the Mosses.
It was weighed to be six ounce weight as they report, that
found the one peice. The other was five ounce and better,,
which was supposed to descend from the Bed of Gold : but no
44, Bed thereof, as yet was found there for it was clean Gold of
, itself. No King, Prince, Superiour, or any other Govemour
ever saw more perfit natural Gold than it was, neither ever
shall see, & especially of Gods own handy work. It never was
made by the art of any man, but as I said before, by that
great Philosopher of Heaven, & this is that God which maketh
the true Philosophei's stones of nothing, & they are to be dis-
covered within the bowels of the Earth amongst Rocks &
Craggs, called God's Treasure house.

I heard it credibly reported, that at Long Cleuchhead there
was found a peice of broun SpaiT, a peice of which I saw^

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somewhat like unto sugar candy, which after it was broke,
had in it an ounce of Gold, of Gods own naturall handy work
which Sparr stone as I suppose, is called the Sappar stone in
forreign Nations Sc Provinces & the same Brown Sparr weighed
two pound Weight Troy,

At Long Cleuch head M' Bulmer made a stamping mill
called in forreign Countreys Tanacanagno. Many such as it,
are used at the West Indies; & in Cornwall within the
Kingdom of England. It is sometimes called a Plash -mill,
where there be many of them made to dress Tin. Out of
such stones gotten in the Earth amongst Rocks and Beds in
which by the eye of man little or nothing can be discerned &
by the same means M' Bulmer used to get small mealy Gold.
At Long Cleuch head in Scot, he got much thereof Sc gave
some away sundry times to unthankfuU persons. He sold
much thereof for half payment, & such as he was most liberal
unto, were readiest to cut his throat. And he continued still
liberal in Hospitality, none like him in that time; so it is
reported through all Crawford Moor.

Upon Glangaber Water in Henderland within the Forrest
of Atrick M' Bulmer got the greatest gold, the like to it in
no other place before of Scotland. But he was at no cost to
bring home Water Courses there ; nor built he any houses to
dwell in, neither stayed he long. And he had there sometimes 4^.
great Gold like Indian Wheat or Pearle, & black eyed like to
Beans. And he did not mean to settle there his Workmei),
till another fitter time should come : for he was driven away
by force of weather ; Sc called away by other great occasions as is
said. He had always many Irons in the fire, besides these which
he himself presently looked on ; and often intricate matters
to decide, & too many prodigal Wasters hanging on every
shoulder of him ; & he wasted much himself; and gave liber-
ally to many for to be honoured, praised and magnified : else
he might have been a rich subject : for the least of these pro-
fusions were able to rob an Abbot. By such means he was
impoverished & followed other Idle vices to his dying day ; that
were allowable of God nor man. And so once down, ay
down, & at last he died at Austinmoor in my debt 340 lb.
sterling, to my great hinderance &, left me in Ireland much in

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debt for him. But if he had lived to this day undoubtedly he
might have paid all men.

Amongst all the Gold which M' Bulmer had gotten in
Scotland besides that which he had given amongst bis
friends, this is to be noted, that he presented unto the late
Queen Elizabeth, so much natural gold as made a porringer of
clean Gold. And her Majesty liked so well of the gift, that
she was pleased to say unto him, M' Bulmer, Thou art a true
faithful! servant ; I have too few such as thou art : but I will
not forget thee, & this thy gift shall remember me, when I see
it, & not thee. Upon this Porringer made of clean Scots
Gold, without any other addition; M' Bulmer caused these
Verses to be engraven as written unto the Queen of England.

I dare not give> nor yet present.
But render part of that's thy own.
My mind & heart shall still invent
To seek oat Treasure yet unknown.

And so having lost his former suit, which was his Living,
^. then he recalled himself, Sc penned a Book of all his Acts,
Works & Devices. He named it Bulmers Skill; it was written,
not printed. Amongst many others his memorable deeds, his
mind still did run upon the Gold mines in Scotland. Another
great part of his Book was how the Silver mines the minerals
& mineral stones might be effected ; & how his Tin mines were
followed ; 8c how the Coal mines & salt work were prosecuted ;
and how his Lead-mines at Mendip were the most commodious
of all others to him. And thus he set down the charge of
each of them severally the profit that did arise by some other
work; & the loss that he sustained by others, the great
charge of Engines, sundry of his own Inventions besides the
several practices he used in sundry shires.

But the greatest thing I observe in M' Bulmers Book called
Bulmer's Skill, is this. First he saith, that he had been with
his Majesty in the first of his Majesties Reign over England,
and that His Highness was well pleased to see him so weel, &
to bear his age & travels so comely. And especially said the
King, because I desire to hear more of my gold mines in Scot-
land, What think you thereof. Are they to be discovered ?

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May they become profitable to us & our Crown ? If it may be
without too much adventure ft loss, speak the truth, & no
more than the truth upon thy Allegiance.

M'* Bulmer answered, All mines are uncertain within the
earth; for God hath hidden his manifold blessings within the
corners of the earth, amongst crevises and holes, even in secret
places; & it is not to be doubted but that your Majesties
golden mines may be discovered, if it might please your Grace
to enure them.

And shortly after Bulmer said, that his Majesty conceived
so good an opinion of them, that he had them much in re-
membrance, amongst other his great & weighty businesses,
esteeming them to be none of the smallest pleasing unto God,
not the least that God had ordained for man within the
Earth. Therefore the King h^d devised a Plot, how the said
Gold works might be set awork anew, & thereby become com- Jjff,
modious unto his Crown and Dignity, and so a great terrour
to all the enemies of God, if it hit.

I doubt said the King, the silver mines of England decay or
else are not to be found so plentifull, as in times past. It is
true, said M' Bulmer. And therefore quoth the King, as I
desire to have a new onset to find out from whence this
naturall Gold doth descend, so I have meditated thereupon, &
have devised a plot how the Gold mines may be set open, &
thereby become profitabler than heretofore. And to that
purpose I have devised this Plot, whereby they may continu-
ally be supplied and continued in working, without ceasing.
And thus with labour of man, many hills & mountains be
turned into Dales & Valleys, and the waters run over the hills
& so alter courses into other places.

M' Bulmer liked well of the Plot, and said, that it is the
readiest way to discover it ; but it was a chargeable way : for
it is as easy to find the true Philosophers stone. I have also
foreseen & prevented that quoth the King. It is thought
fitting, that Bulmer shall be a Superiour or Chjef thereof,
because of his trust and skill, which was liked of by the Lords
of the Council in Scotland. Therefore let Bulmer procure 24
Gentlemen within England of sufficient lands & livings; or
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Undertakers thereof and to be Adventurers towards the dis-
covery thereof; and see that all these Gentlemen be of such
sufficiency in lands, goods, or chattels as the worst be worth
10000 lib. sterling or else 500 lib sterling per annum ; and all
such Gentlemen to be moved to disburse 300 lib sterlin each
man in moneys or victuals for maintenance of the Gold mines
in Scotland; for which Disbursment each man to have the
honour of knightliood bestowed upon him, and so for ever to
be called The Knight of the Golden Mines, or the Golden
Knight. And none then spake against it, so as M' Bulmer
thought it should be done that the King had said. Besides
^. all the moneys or victuals so collected to be carried to a store-
house and to be committed to the custody of two Treasurers
to see the employment thereof, the one of England the other
of Scotland.

But it still was intended also that M' Bulmer should be
Chief Governour or Guider of all such Workmen and to direct
the whole Works whatsoever during his life, if it endured so
long. And that Workmen might weekly be payed from M'
Bulmer; and that Houses sc Mills might be foreseen to be
built at the best hand ; and to provide for all necessaries as
Victuals, Tools, Instruments and Implements whatsoever by
M' Bulmer ; and that Clowses, Damms and Watercourses be
made fitting to the furnishing of the said Gold Mines &
washing of Gold &^. And that all sorts of WaterMills,
Stamping Mills and Plash mills that are requisite, be made
ready, as is thought good to be done by M' Bulmer or his
Agents.

Lastly to erect a church or chappel for all the Workmen,
where they may make their Prayers to God for their souls
health. And then the works of their hands will be blessed
and come to a good end, to Gods glory, the Kings profit and
a benefit to the Commonweal, as is in other countreys and
nations.

M*^ Bulmer took his oath diverse times in my hearing, all
this to be true, and that it was intended by the King. And
all these sayings he told amongst his frequented friends, who
liked so well of it, that they said It is too good news not to
be true. But the next time that M' Bulmer came from Court,

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he came home very pensive & grew sick and then he confessed
that the Earle of Salisbury had crossed all his expected
fortunes in his future business: for, said he, all is quite
dashed, that his Majesty intended. And then he called him-
self to remembrance, his charge, his children, and family.
Well, said he, God giveth & God taketh away; Blessed be
the name of the Lord from this time forth Sc for evirmore. 49.
Again he said. But me thinketh it strange, that the King of
Great Britain should make a grant & that a nobleman^ of
England should cut it off, and say It is not fitting that such
a suit should be granted, to so mean a man : for it was too
great for any subject in England. And thus the dubbing of
these S4 Knights was ended, & the Golden Mines were not
spoken of for that time any more. Only one Knight was
made, called Sir John Cleypool; for he had ventured with
M^ Bulmer before 5001ib. sterl. at the Gold Mines in Scot-
land. He is yet living, and saith It is very true. So the
Gold Mines charge was cut off at that time, till I myself did
undertake them at my own Charge.

Sir Bewis Bulmer hath set down in his book the manner
how the rich Silver mines at Hilderstone in Scotland were
found and how they were lost. After the full discovery
thereof, he rested not, untill he named them, calling one Pit
or Shaft, Gods Blessing, because of the wonderfull works of
God, that he had seen, the like wliereunto were never before
known to be within any of his Majesties Kingdomes. And I
have good cause to be well acquainted with that silver mine,
being there imployed from the beginning till the going out
thereof; as a Refiner of the same, & a longer time than any
others of England, Scotland or Germany.

Now concerning the first finding out thereof. Sir Bewis saith
in his Book, that it was found out by meer fortune or chance
of a Collier by name Sandy Mund a Scotsman, as he sought
about the skirts of those Hills near to the bum or Water of
Hilderstone. And this Scotsman, by means of digging the
ground, hit upon the heavy peice of Red metall, the like
unto which no man thereabouts ever saw. It was raced with

* Earle Salisbury ' [interlined].

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many small strings like unto hairs or threads. It had
descended from a vein thereof, where it had ingendred with
the Sparrstone, which Spamtone in forreign Provinces is
called by other Travellers CaciOeL And he sought further
into the ground and foond a peice of brownish Sparrstone,

^- which was mossie. He broke it with his Mattock and it was
white It glittered within like mito small white Copper Reefe,
which is to be found in many common free stones. He never
dreaming of any silver to be in that stone, shewed it to some
of his friends and they said Where hadst thou it ? At the
Silver Bum, quoth he, under the hill called Kempople.
Whereupon a Gentleman of Linlithgow wished Sandy Mundy
to traveU unto the Leadhill and about Glangonner Water he
should hear of one Sir Bewis Bulmer, and said If it prove
good, he will be thankfull, if otherwise, he will reward thee,
I will. Whereupon he took his journey toward the Leadhill
It came to M' Bulmer^s house, and shewed these few Minerals or
Mineral stones that he had gotten at the Silver bum near to
Linlithgow & gave him a letter from M' Robert Stewart which
was lovingly accepted of; and then one of his servants made
fire in the Assay>fumace, to make triall thereof. Mr Bulmer
did not trust to the first trial, because it proved rich ; but
went to it again & again, & still it proved rich & wondrous rich.
Shortly after my coming to Gods Blessing in Scotland, the
Silver mine being set open, I was let down into that shaft so
named & I brought up with me a most admirable peice of the
Cacilla stone, a mineral stone, which I thought came from
one of Gods Treasure houses : part whereof I kept still, & a
part thereof I sent for a token unto London to my Uncle
Atkinson of Fosterlane & it was much accepted of. It was
much more admired at by many Gold Smiths of London, who
saw it, proved it, tried & commended it above all others that ever
they saw before. And then my Uncle Atkinson, who is now
dead, made an occasion and went to the Court at Whitehall,
desirous to speak with the Earle of Salisbury his Honourable
good Lord and Friend, unto whom he shewed it And
the Earle of Salisbury likewise much admired at it saying,

61. M' Atkinson, you have done me as great a pleasure herein,
and more than I expected or could devise, if so be that it

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be gotten within the kingdom of Scotland, without collusion :
for I must tell you, there be many prodigious Workmen in
the World and too many in the Kingdom of England.

Whereupon M' Atkinson replyed saying My Lord, I will
hazard my life that this token sent to me by my Kinsman was
gotten by him in the ground. I dare presume thereof, for
hitherto I thank God, I have brought him up from his Craddle,
ft I am sure he doth not collude.

And then the Earl replyed saying Shall I then believe
you ? and may I shew it unto the Kings Majesty ? I tell you
truly it is the best token that I ever received out of that
Kingdom or any other Kingdom of that quality by any other
Grentleman whatsoever, and I will be thankful! unto you, use
me, when you please. And the Earl said a more curious peice
of work, in a stone, viz. in a Mineral or Mineral stone, no
nian hath ever seen ; which I esteem above all others, because
of Scotland, from whence I have sundry times had gold, but
never anything in this sort, as perfit silver. Further telling
M' Atkinson, that he would shew it imto the King &, deliver
it again, if he be not countermanded. But it was never more
seen to M' Atkinson, neither had he ever content for it.

The manner how it grew, was like unto the hair of a man^s
head and the grass in the feild. And the Vein thereof, out
of which I had it, was once two inches thick by measure &
rule. The metal thereof was both malleable & tough. It
was course silver worth 4" 6^ the ounce weight not fine silver
as is made by the art of man.

The greatest quantity of silver that ever was gotten at
God'^s Blessing was raised & fined out of the Red metal : and
the purest sort thereof then contained in it 24 ounces of fine
silver upon every hundred weight valued at six score pounds
Sterling the Tun. And much of the same Red mettal by
Assay held twelve score pound Sterling per Tun.

But when the same Mines befell unto the Kings Majesty to sg,
he Superior or Govemour thereof, then indeed it was not
altogether so rich in silver : But two Scots ships at the second
Return, were freighted therewith viz. the white sparr and the
Red metal together which at depth proved not so rich as
the other before brought in one ship in the last long great

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frost, unto the tower of London, I being at that time in the
ship.

When I wrought on the first sort of Red metal for M'
Bulmer and My Lord Advocate of Scotland, sundry times I
refined it and commonly for the space of three days weekly I
made 100 lib. sterl. each day.

Some part of the same Red metal was brought to London to
be tried & small profit arose thereof, & scantly it payed charges
thereof for the blessing of God was extracted by Gods providence
before. I tried of the like Red metall at the Tower of London,
being a parcell of the first ten Tuns. And Coals & other charges
were so dear, as Wages &^. that it scantly countervailed the
expenses thereof. But in Scotland it was done by me with
Peats & Stone coals at reasonable price: and I did more in Scot-
land in one day, than in three at London, thereby came profit.

But this was the strangest of all others, and as it were
almost incredible for man to believe. Untill the said Red
metal came to 12 fathoms deep, it remained still good ;
but from thence unto SO fathom deep, it proved nought : the
property thereof was quite changed miraculously in goodness,
it was worth little or nothing. And more, upon an instant,
after the Brun wicks entered, it was quite altered in quality,
but not in colour, fashion & heaviness.

And thus much more I dare presume to promise, with the
help of God'^s assistance, and his Majesties laudable authority,
to discover the like Silver Mine near unto Hilderstone, as was
before at Hilderstone, having the help of an Englishman
named before in my Commission for the gold mines. Which
hardly will be effected, but only for his gracious Majesty.
And how long then the same will continue, being discovered
that is best known unto God, not to any man : for mines be
53. as uncertain for continuance, as life is to man, which is like a
Bubble upon the Waters ; to day a man, to morrow none.

It was proved by myself in the Gold mines of Scotland, that
sundry other sorts of minerals and mineral stones are produced
from many Nations, of great value. I read of the precious
Onyx stone, the Diamond and the Carbuncle, the Topaz, the
Crystal, the Coral & Jabish the Pearle the Sapphir, and many
other stones gotten both within the Earth, and within Beasts,
Fishes and Worms, in which they ingender.

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And for the Earth, I have seen in Scotland Natural Gold
ingender with sundry stones ; natunll Silver & malleable, to
abide the Hammer, natural quicksilver amongst the sea-sands;
and perfit red Copper and malleable in stones ; Tin of several
colours, black, brown & gray ; Lead malleable growing in his
Ewer and a white heavy Sparr to hold store of malleable Lead ;
Iron to be in sundry coloured stones, perfit, hard and abiding
the Hammer. And I believe all sorts of Minerals and Mineral
stones as well in cold countreys as in hot with the Earth are
occasioned by that in Scotland.

M' Bulmer writeth of the variety of stones sc metals found
out by him in Scotland to wit, 1 Natural gold, great and
small ; 2 Natural Silver, the like before he never saw. 3 Copper
stone of the richest sort. 4 Lead ewer, great store at Leadhill.
5 Iron stones, abundance thereof. 6 Of Stone coals or sea
coals, great plenty. 7 Beds of Alabaster Stone. 8 Of Marble
Stones, good store and much desired. 9 Of Amethyst Stone
marvellous amiable : for he had a man that wrought the same
stones, and one of them the King^s Majesty did wear. 10
Natural Pearle is found in Galloway, amongst the common
people within the Scots sea sands. Infinite other riches are
there also: yet some are not ashamed to ask Whether the
sun, moon or starrs do shine in that Countrey or not ?

Some old ancient Gold Smiths of London compare the
natural Gold of Scotland unto Tyber Gold, who say that the
like Gold was usually gotten in Valleys and Dales by the river
Side of Tiberis. Some say it is like to the Gold of Tygris. 64.
And some say. It is like to Guinea Gold which was brought to
London by Sir Walter Rauleigh almost forty years since. And
so it is ; for when I saw it, and brought the Scots Gold to be laid
by it in a paper, no man could discern the one from the other.

In Clidesdale and Nidesdale within the Kingdom of Scotland
is a place which may be compared unto the Garden of Eden,
or called a second Eden, though not so pleasant & fruitfuU
above ground, yet richer under ground for gold. And there be
four Waters or Rivers, the heads whereof descend out of
Mountains and Mosses : or hard Rocks & Craggs. These Rivers
are also divided by Gods- omnipotent power into four heads.

1. The name of one called Glangonner Water within
Clidesdale upon Frier Moor, of which the Lord Marquess

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Hamiltoun is Superior under his Majesty, where there is much
natural Gold and the gold of that Land is good. It is com-
monly found near the Riverside in Valleys and Dales. It hath
been washed down into these Combs from the Mountains and
Mosses on each side of the River viz. from the Vein or Bed
thereof. It commonly looketh pale and wan, not red & high
coloured like other Gold. Glangonner Water descendeth into
the river Glide, from thence to Glasgow and so unto the sea.

2. The name of the second is Short Cleuch Water upon
Alwayne within Cliddesdale in Crawford-moor, of which the
Earle of Lothiane alias Lord Newbottle is Superior under His
Majesty, where is Gold and the Gold of this land is also good.
This Gold is red Gold. The Water descendeth to the River
elide, from thence to Glasgow and so to the sea.

Upon Short Cleuch Water, Gold was gotten by me and
brought to the Kings Majesty, tried to be worth 76000 Ub.
the Tun Weight by the Lord Knevet.

These Braes are very like to prove rich Braes, if tliey be

diligently searched, and the Vein or Bed thereof is not far oflF

from that Gold in Valleys and Combs, before gotten. The

55, Water courses at Short Cleuch are in great decay for want

of reparation. ^ , , , i

3. The name of the third River is Wmlock-head, or
Winlock-water upon Robert-moor within Nidesdale, of which
the Lord Sanchar is Superior under his Majesty, and the
laird of Closeburn is Fewer thereof wherein is Gold and the
Gold of this land is good. ' ^ ,, . ,. ^ a wa

It is said that M' Bowes discovered a Vem thereot, and hid
it up again in the late Queen Elizabeths Reign, as before
mentioned. This Water descends to Craig, from thence to
the River of Nith and so to Drumfries, from thence to Carlisle
and so to the sea.

4. The name of the fourth River is Mannock Water upon
Mannock moor, within Nidesdale, and the Lord Drumlanrick
is Superior thereof under His Majesty. In this land Gold is
found and the Gold is good.

But it is like unto jagged Gold and rough ; not smooth Grold,
as upon the rest of the Moors. This Water descendeth unto
the River of Nith and so unto Drumfreiss ; thence to Carlisle,
and so unto the sea.

MINES— MINERALS 58

Silver hath been extracted out of Lead Ewer, Copper
Ewer, & Iron stone in England. As for Tin Mine, it is so
chafgeable & besides it is a rank poyson unto Gold and Silver,
and it is not to be medled withall for silver. But if you
desire to seek for Gold and Silver, then seek it, as in other
Nations, out of these dry Minerals or these Mineral stones viz.
the Sappar, the Calaminar, the Saxere and the Salineer stones
for Grold. And I find by my practise and observation, that
silver only & no other metal is to be extracted out of these
dry Minerals & Mineral stones, viz. the Cacilla, the Tacano
the Centeno and the Mandieta stones.

For testing whereof I have found the Centeno at Comb
Martin in Devon, which the Tinners in Cornwall called Blend
and some men called it a sulphure as is in coals.

I find at Bereferries in Devon the Tacano, heavy which the
Tinners do call Chalk, but in Lincolnshire I find the same^.
dry stones light; which is called Tawlk. In Cornwall and
Devon it is called White Marchasite. But nothing but per-
fect silver is to be extracted out of the perfect Tacano, which
is a perfect dry mineral or mineral stone.

Now for the Cacilla I find it in Scotland, which Scotsmen
call Bell Metall, or Red Metal and it is a brittle metal, which
in a Pot driveth like unto silver in the fire and is no silver, nor
any other malleable metal. But this I can say thereof, that
the oftener it is melted of itself in a Pot, and driven well
therein by the fire, still you shall find silver in the Principal,
till it be consumed, but no other malleable metal. I have
written hereof before in this Book.

For the Mandieta, I have found it to be within the King-
dom of Ireland, near unto the place or Castle called Artully
in Desmond. The Irish call it Silver Mine, the English call
it black metal, most like unto Tin ewer in Cornwall & Devon.
The Dutchmen or Germans call it a mineral stone much like
unto Tin, and is no Tin, it consuming the other thing viz.
silver.

I can say thus much of that black stone. Melt it with the
Lead ewer which ingenders with it, and it will make the same
body called Lead to be hard ; and when that hard is broken,
it will look in grain and colour like the richest Lead ewer that

54 MINERALS

ever I have fined in England or any of his Majesties Dominions.
I have tried Lead Ewer at Comb Martin, and Bereferries in
Devon, at Langc^sack in Cornwall at Slateburn in Lancashire,
at Keswick in Cumberland, at Clannomonirook in Wales; & at
in Cardiganshire ; In Scotland at Hiiderstone in Lothian:
but never found I the like unto this. But I find that this black
Mandietta consumes away much of the silver in it, except it be
clean purged away from the Ewer, and then the Ewer holdeth
only an ounce upon the Lead that comes thereof.

I have seen the same Lead of Artully, before the silver was
extracted, to make good Tavern pots. Bowl pots member pots
and saucers, much like unto Pewter, but was none.

57. Memorandum of the MINERALS in Scotland communi-
cated to me by Colonel Bokthwick.

1. There is a silver mine on the northside of the Hill of
South Fardin, beside the burn that runs from Tiliry in the
Laird of Meinzies his land in the parish of Foveran, ten miles
northeast from Aberdeen.

S. There is Gold to be found in several places about Duni-
deer, beyond Aberdeen several miles.

3. There is a Silver mine in a Bank called the Golden Bank
at Menzies in the Parish of Foveran ten miles north from
Aberdeen.

4. There is also a silver mine at the back of a Park, where
there is a Well that serves Disblairs Houshold, within a pair
of Butts length to the gates of Disblair in the Parish of Fintra.
The mine is about the Wall eight miles North by Aberdeen.

5. There is much Gold in the Boggs of New Leslie to be
found and at Drumgarran, where George Leslie did live, two
miles from Dunidder.

6. There is an Iron mine at the Wall of Sipa, at the west-
side of the Womanhill, near Gilkomstoun Mill, a quarter of a
mile from Aberdeen.

7. There is a Gold mine very rich in a Husband town called
Overhill in the Parish of Behelvie, that belongs to my Lord
Glames, three fathoms beneath the Kyln, that is at the head
of the In-town.

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8. There is a Lead mine at the head of Longlie burn, in the
northside of Selkirk.

9. There is a Copper place called Elphen, in an Hill beside
Allen in the Laird of Hiltowns lands.

10. There is in Galloway, in the hill of Skrill, silver in a
stripe of Water ten fathoms of length from the spring that
runs into the stripe.

11. There is a silver mine in Windyneil in Tweddale in
several parts thereabout.

12. There is Gold in a place called Glenclought, which the
miners did find long since at the Kirkhill, toward the East-
side thereof.

IS. In Largo-Law in Fife Copper enough.

14. There is silver in the Hill called the Lochenhill on the .
southside thereof.

15. There is a Lead mine in my Lord Brotherstoun's Land, 68.
two miles from the sea. Much Lead there.

16. There are several sorts of metals to be found near by
Kirkudbright & specially in the Barony of Drumdenan, which
lands belong to my Lord Kirkcudbright.

17. There is Copper in the northeast side of Borthwick hill,
betwix Hawick and Branscome.

18. There is silver in the Caylies moor,^ within the Bum
that is betwixt the Sorn and Machlin place.

There is Copper ore found in Cantyre in a hill there, of the
colour of Gold sayeth M' Graniel.

M' Graniel sayeth he heth had ane hundred severall Leed
ores from the Orknay Islands.

Another Memorandum of the MINERALS of SCOT-
LAND not much differing from the former, and
communicated to me by the same hand.

In the Boggs of New-Leslie, upon the Bumside and at
Drumgavan where George Leslie did dwell, two miles from
Dunideer.

And in Northfidle-hill in one John Keiths land, beside
ReivenHeivne Gold.

^ Kyles Moor ' [interlined].

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And at Menzies in the Golden bank there, in the Parish of
Foveran, and at the Hill of South Fardin.

And in the Overhill beneath the kyln in the In-town : this
is in the parish of Behelvie.

And in Dinkey hill in Carrick, not far from MayboU.

And in Caylies-moor within the Bum that is betwixt the
Som and Machlin place.

And in Henderland, Glangaber-bum there.

And in Dowglass braes, and at Dowglass craig.

And at Windy-neil in Tweddale

And in Borthwick hill betwixt Hawick & Branxome.

And in Mareth within the Blacklions in Yarrow.

And in Louglie bum, in the Northside of Selkirk.
69. And also at the Newtown in Angen, Caitbum in Annan-
dale.

And in Over-Lochenbum, AUo y hcuto.

And at Sarus Arrius at Beneithill in Fife.

Sulway sands near to the newtoun of Annan, not far from
Dmmfreiss. M\(Ae chiUir.

Durenness Warenener. It belongs to the Lord Ray. AUi ay
una piedra muy rebucente de moche tambien an, metal muy
bueno.

In Glen-Iyla, stat cciselluschall, at Caiderhall.

And Over-Glen, above St. Brides Kirk

And in Normingill on the side of jCamps Watter.

And in Aluan water and Cherries braes.

Lancia, Kokseye and Long Cleuch.

And Bellies baik and Jemies mayr.

And in Glennaip betwixt Carrick and Galloway.

And Ruberlawhill, a mile from Bodua.

And in GuUoway, in the Barony of Tareagles. In a Hill
called Colochen hill.

And Largo-Law in Fife. Plata de azur

And in Hara in Caithness in the Laird Rathers Land.

Dumpender law. It belongs to Bedwall.

And in Moir or Air-Law beside Crichtoun Den. Oro.

And in the Laird of Downs Law in Eelnes.

And in My Lord Brotherstouns Land, lead two miles from
the sea.

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And in Court wit-burn.

In Galloway in the hill of Skrill, in a stripe of Water,
Mucko oro y grandes pecUifos,

And in the Water above Tairpland Mill, & in sundry other
parts thereabout.

And in a burn that comes from the head of Moffet- Water.
Oro.

Annan Water in Annandale.

And in Glencloucht, where the Miners did find much Gk>ld 00,
long since at the Eirkhill.

And in Long Forglen-Moor three miles from Dundee.

And in and at Santans hill.

And at James Crawfords, at and in Muikeet, MUlen uneUo

Not far from Culross thrie or four miles above Toriebum.

Account of SUTHERLAND and of the
EARLE of SUTHERLAND.

All that Tract of land, which lies betwixt Port na Couter
and Dungsbay, was of old called Cattey. That part of it,
which lies Eastward from the hill Ord, was named Cattey
Ness, and afterward Cathness, the Promontory of Cattey.
That on this side the Ord was called simply Cattey, and after-
ward for distincticms sake South Cattey and Sutherland, which
to this day, in the language of the natives and Highlanders,
retains the name of Cattey as the Sutherland men are called
Catteigh and the Earl of Sutherland Morvar Cattey. Dornoch
is a Burgh Royal and the Bishops Seat

We find in the History that Alan Thane of Sutherland was
one of them, whom the Tyrant Macbeth put to death, because
of their inclination to King M alcom's Interest and have great
reason to judge the succeeding Earles to be descended of
him.

But that which upon the faith of unquestionable Records
yet extant, can be averred concerning this family is, That the
present Earls of Sutherland are retourcd and served Heires
lineally upward to William the Lion, in or about the year
All that remains concerning him, is a Charter granted by him

68 SUTHERLAND

confirming certain Lands in Sutherland to Gilbert then Arch-
deacon of Murray, afterward Bishop of Caithness, called St.
Gilbert; which lands are confirmed to the same Gilbert by
King William in a Charter of Confirmation dated at Sleis-
chillis the 29*** of April, without naming the year. These
same Lands being disponed by Gilbert to his brother Richard,
there is a Confirmation of that Disposition granted by King
Alexander dated at St. Andrews Dec' 26, ia85.
61. This Earles son was likewise called William, of whom there
is yet extant an Indenture and Agreement concerning some
lands that were in controversie betwixt him and his Father,
there designed Earles of Sutherland on the one part, and
Archibald then Bishop of Caithness, and the above mentioned
Gilbert on the other. This is dated the Calends of October
1275 in the reign of Alexander the 8^. The Earle of Sutherland
is found subscribing that famous Letter to the Pope in the
time of King Robert Bruce, which is printed in Sir George
Mackenzie's Book of Heraldry and is the only Nobleman then
subscribing, whose Posterity at this day continue in that
quality.

This Family was in the greatest height in the time of King
David Bruce, whose youngest sister was married to William
Earle of Sutherland as his elder was to the Stewart: King
David heaped many favours upon this family, as may be seen
particulai'ly mentioned in Hector Boetius. He erected the
Earledome of Sutherland into a Regality in the year 1847.
He gave to this Earle many other lands also, such as the
Thanedome of Downy in the Sherifdome of Forfar, the
Thanesdomes of Kincardin, Fettercairn, and Aberlichnoch and
the Castle of Dunotter in the Sherifdome of Kincardin, the
half of the Thanesdomes of Formartin & Kintore and the
Barony of Cluny in the Sherifdome of Aberdeen and the
Barony of Urchart in the Sherifdome of Inverness : of all
which the Charters are still extant granted by King David.
But of those and other Lands he, on a foolish expectation,
was too liberall, as Hector Boetius tells. This Earles eldest
son was sent to England an Hostage for the King his Uncle,
and there dyed. After whose death he had another son John,
afterward Earle, of whom his Mother Lady Margaret Bruce
died in Childbed.

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They alwayes retained the sirname of Sutherland, till John
the fourth, so called, Earle of Sutherland, dying without Issue,
the Inheritance fell to Elizabeth his sister Countess of Suther-
land, who was served Heir to her father in the year 1509 and
to her brother in the year 1514. She married Adam Gordon
Lord Aboyne second son to George the second Earle of
Huntly. This Adam thus by marriage Earl of Sutherland
obliged Y-Roy Mack-Y to give him a Bond of Service of the 6$.
date 1516 and John Mack-Y to give him another of the date
1518, which was renewed again, 152S. His son Alexander
djdng before himself, left behind him John Gk>rdon afterward
Earle of Sutherland, who was served Heir to his Grand Mother
Elizabeth Sutherland Countess of Sutherland the ftS^ of June
1567. He took a bond of Manrent or service from Mackenzie
of Kintayl dated 154^ and another from Mack-Y of the date
1549, both which are yet in the custody in the Earles of
Sutherland. This Earle was made Lieutenant General for the
Queen from Spey Northward in the year 1547. and had the
Government of Ross from Queen Mary 1555. To him
succeeded Alexander who purchased the superiority of the
lands of Strath-naver, which the Mack-Y still holds of the
Earles of Sutherland in Few-ferm. To him succeed John
Earle of Sutherland, to whom K. James the 6*** confirms his
Right of Regality granted to his Predecessor by King David
Bruce, and further erects Sutherland into a Sherifdome, taking
in Strath-Naver and Assint; all which before were parts of
the Sherifdome of Inverness, and constitutes the Earle of
Sutherland Heritable Sherif and gives to Inver-Broray in
Sutherland the Priviledge of a Burgh of Barony ; all by a
charter dated in the year 1601. This Earle obtained likewise
an Heritable Right of the Admiralty of the whole coasts of
the Sherifdomes of Sutherland & Caithness in the year 161S,
which Priviledges of Regality, Sherifdome, and Admiralty
are still in the possession of this Family. This Earle was
Grandfather to George the present Earle and Representative
of this ancient family of Sutherland.

The principal! founders of Families, which have descended
of this have been 1. Nicholas Sutherland son to Kenneth Earle
of Sutherland who died at the battel of HoIIowdown hill in

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the year ISSS. He founded the family of Duffus. S John
and Kenneth Sutherlands both sons to Nicholas Earle of
Sutherland, who died in the year 1S99. Of the first of these
are descended the Sutherlands of Berridale ; of the second the
family of Force in Caithness. 8 Alexander Sutherland son to
Robert Earle of Sutherland, son to the above named Earle
^- Nicholas. Of him are come the Sleaght Kenneth wich Alister.
4 Sir Robert Gordon son to Alexander, and brother to John
Earle of Sutherland last above mentioned. Of him are
descended the families of Grordonstoun & Cluny.

There is Talk foimd in Sutherland, I have a peice of it.

A Description of the ISLAND of SHET-
LAND & the fishing thereabout, being
an Extract out of a book intituled
Englands Improvement by Captain John
Smith who was imployed there, by the
Earle of Pembrock in the Year 1638. and
stayed a whole twelve Month there.

The Land of Shetland lyeth Nortli & by East Sc South or
South ft West, about 60 miles. But there many Islands
belonging to Shetland which I shall have occasian to mention
hereafter.

That which is most considerable, are the Sounds & Harbours.
On the Westside of the southward point of Shetland, there is
a good harbour and sound called St. Magnus; and on the
Eastside near Sunbrough head is a fair sand Bay, where there
is good Anchoring in ten or 12 fathoms. To the Northward
of the last sound, there is another sound called Hambrough
Haven, which is aLadeplace for the Hamburgese Scots. Brace
sound a gallant harbour, where many ships may by Land-lockt
for all Winds.

About 9 or 10 leagues from the southward point of Shet-
land there is a Chanel that runneth through the land.
The southpart of the land divided by the Chanel is called
Stranbery ; the other so divided or the north part is called

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Laxford. Within this Chanel aforesaid are severall sounds or
harbours: but the best & chiefest sound is Brace Sound or
Broad sound, as before mentioned. Out of the Sound, the
aforesaid Chanel doth run northward.

On the North part of Swanbei^, lyetli the high Hill of
Hanglix. From the said Hanglix, about 9 Leagues Northward, 64,
bj some Out Rocks called the Stars. To the Northward of
the Starrs, there is a very good Harbour, called Bloom Sound.
To the Northward of this last sound is another good Haven,
called Sound, being the Northernmost or Northeast

Sound or Haven belonging to the Island called Ounst.

There are others Havens or Sounds which ly through the
Land between and about that part of Shetland called Laxford
and the Island called Yelle. There are also other Islands and
Sounds, which for brevity-sake I forbear to mention.

The Merchants which trade with the Inhabitants of
Shetland are Hamburgers, Breamers, Luberghers, Scots &
English.

The chief Inhabitants of the Islands are Scots : the meaner
or inferiour sort are a mixed people of Danes and Scots.

The Islands of Shetland were given to King James by the
King of Denmark with Queen Anne being part of her Dowry.

The Commodities of Shetland, which the Inhabitants do,
for the most part trade withall, is Ling and Cod, which they
take with hooks sc Lines in small Boats called Yalls about the
bigness of Gravesend Oars. The Ling they sell for 3^ a peice,
being a Ling of the largest size and is called a Gild-Ling.
If smaller, then we have two for one or three for two
and so proportionably. The Cod is sold for 2^ the Gild-Cod,
and is measured as the Ling. I bought of fishermen the
Inhabitants of the Island called Ounst 1655 ^ Gild-Ling, & 884
Gild-Cod, at S^ the Gild-Ling, sc S^ the Gild-Cod; which
Ling & Cod were taken by the said fishermen at several times
in their small Boats & brought to my place of abode every
morning as they were caught. The said Ling & Cod being
very good & merchantable, were salted aboard the ship that
landed me, Sc within seven weeks after my landing, I sent her

^ 1 1655 in the printed account. — £d.

est SHETLAND

for LoodoD with the said Fish to the Right Honourable the
Earie of Pembroke
€^. Tliere is also other small Fidi whidi the Inhabitants do
catdi with An^es sitting on the Bocks, it in their small boats
with books and lines in the Sounds and between the Islands.
And these small Fish are Terr considerable : for although they
cannot spend them, by reason of the multitude they take sc
have not industry to make use of them for transportation ; yet
the livers they preserve with the livers of the Ling & Cod,
make Train-OyL but if it were improved, as taking them with
Nets the Train-Oyl would amount to a considerable sum. And
if this increase of trade were carried through the whole Islands,
it would be a great encouragemoit to all merchants trading
into those parts.

There were several other Merchants in the Island, where I
did inhabit, that bought Ling & Cod of the Fishermen, so
that the Quantity which I sent for England, was not above
the fifth part taken in that Island ; with which the whole
quantity of fisch, that was bought by other Merchants,
throughout the whole Islands of Shetland, being added to-
gether, would amount to a very considerable sum or Quantity,
to the lading of many vessels, which might be much more im-
proved, and increase Trading therby, furnishing the Inhabi-
tants with Money & Commodities.

In the Islands of Shetland there were Beeves and Sheep
sold at a very reasonable rate. I bought for my own use, and
the victualling of the ship sent to London, three Oxen for S^'*
fc at another time four Oxen for 5'** Which were fat, and about
the bigness of the small sort of Cattel we have in England.
There were also fat sheep sold for 2* 8^ and 9^ 6* per sheep.
There were also other Creatures for food as Conies and Fowls.

The fewel for firing in Shetland is Peat & Turf. There
may be salt pans set up there, and good salt made to serve all
the fishing fleet. There are very good shores for landing &
drying of Nets fc making & drying fishes.

There is no night in the North of Shetland part of two
moneths in the Year as June & July. In an Island North of
Ounst, being not inhabited, but stockt with wild Cows &
Conies. I did kill with my Binding peice ten couple of Conies

SHETLAND 68

in one night shooting from a little before sunset to sunrising, 66,
and it was as light as a cloudy Winter day.

I do not remember any frost or snow in Shetland ; if any, it
was not of long continuance. The coldest weather is by reason
of great Winds in the Winter quarter, the Wind blowing so
violent, that no ship dare look on the North coast; so that
the people of these Islands have little Commerce with other
Nations in that Quarter. I can speak by experience, being blown
down flat to the ground by the violence of the Wind, I was
forced to creep on my hands sc knees to the next Wall sc going
by the Wall got into an House : Sometimes it lasteth half a
day sc more.

There are several Towns in Shetland so called, being about
eight or ten houses together, where they plow and sow Com
as Oats, which is their cheifest Bread ; and if my memory do
not much deceive me, there was good Barley growing in my
time. But the land might be much improved, if the Inhabi-
tants were industrious; they are like unto the Idle Irish, not
improving any thing either by Sea or Land ; spending that in
the Winter which they get in the Summer; although their
Winter might be very profitable unto them, if they were
laborious and industrious as the Hollandei*s are.

The Goods and Commodities, that are vendible in Shetland
are Hooks and Lines for the taking of Ling and Cod, Nets for
the taking of Herrings, Strong beer, Bisket, Wheaten-meal,
Salt, Pease, Fruits of all sorts. Strong- Water, Monmout Caps
ft many other particulars.

The Inhabitants of the Island of Ounst usually have a Bark
that they trade with to Norway, where they may buy Timber
ready framed ; also Deal-boards, Tar, Ships, Barks and Boatts
of all sorts and other necessaries for their Isle.

With their small Fishing-boats called Yalls, they will row
into the Main about two or three Leagues, more or less, where
the Banks are that they lay their Hooks, and Lines for Ling
Sc Cod, in one of these Boats rowing. With two men, and some-
times four, according to the largeness of the Boat. They do
usually bring to shore, every morning, that they go to sea, 67.
about fifty or sixty Ling & Cod.

There are many Barrells of Herrings taken by the Inhabi-

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tants with their small Boats in the Sounds and at sea not far
from Land which are the gleanings of the Hollanders Busses,
for the Busses driving at sea break the skull or shole of Her-
rings, and then the Herrings fly near the shore and through
the Sounds, where these small Boats with the Nets they have,
take them. But if they had better tacklings and Boats, they
might take 500 Barrels for one, which would enrich the
Islands, and by encreasing of trade, would augment His
Majesties Revenues.

I was an Eye-witness of the Hollanders Busses fishing for
Herrings on the Coast of Shetland, not far from Ounst one of
the Northernmost Islands. Demanding the number of them I
was informed by severall persons of quality, that the fleet
consisted of 1500 sail, and there were about 20 Wasters, as
they call them, ships carrying about 30 Guns a peice, being
the Convoys of the Fleet Busses, which said Busses were of the
burden of about 80 Tun.

There were also a small Fleet of Dogger Boats, which were
of the burden of 60 Tun and upwards which did fish only with
hooks and Lines for Ling and Cod. Many of these Boats aud
Busses came into several havens or sounds, to fit and trim
themselves. One thing was observable that within 8 or 10
dayes, after the Dogger Boats went to sea, they came into the
sound again so full laden, as they could swim. The certain
number of Dogger Boats, I could not learn, but the general
report was that they were about 400.

The Composition of the Hollanders, as I was informed after
my coming into England, was an Annualrent of 100,000 lib.
and 100,000 lib. in hand, but never hath been payed or
brought into the Exchequer as I could hear of

If the King would set out such a fleet of Busses for the
Fishing trade in our own seas, and on our own grounds, and all
strangers were discharged from fishing in these seas, and trade
68, with Orkney & Shetland that the subjects of the three king-
doms only may have it, it would make our King rich and
glorious, and the three Eingdomes happy not one would want
bread, and God would be praised, and the King loved.

Ten thousand sail of forrain Ships and Vessels and above
Imployed and maintained by fishing on our Coasts ; SMX),000

SHETLANI>~HADDINGTON 65

Marinen and Fishers. The States of Holland received for
custome of herrings and other salt fish above 800,000 lib.
sterling. The profite of one year of all the fish taken in out
seas by Forreiners amounts to 1000,0000 lib. sterling.

The FERTILITY of the WOMEN in SHETLAND.

The Women in Shetland are generally fertile. My Cousin
David Sibbald told me, that he spake with a married Couple^
none of them above 50 years, and the Man and Woman both
lean persons, who (as they told him themselves, and it was
confirmed by their Neighbours) had in Marriage between them
two, 88 children, most of them baptized, and many of them
living. Many of them were Twins.

The FRUITFULNESS of their SHEEP &^

The sheep there ordinarily bring forth two or thrie at a
time. Their Horses, which they call Shelties, some of which
I have seen, are little bigger than Asses, but very durable.

The burgh of HADINGTOUK

This is an ancient Burgh Royal and Head of the Shire of
East Lothian, pleasantly situated in an Arm of the River
Tine, upon the Post rode twelve miles East from Edinburgh
and under the Latitude 66. i. The town is well built, but by
the frequent incursions of the English, many of their Monu-
ments of Antiquity are destroyed. ITiey have a fine Parochial
Church standing without the East port of the Town by the i
Riverside, which is the remaining part of a great Cross-Church,
the Walls whereof and a large wide steeple are yet to be seen
of fine hewn stone, not repaired. I have seen, when I was a
child, some small fragments of Glass sticking in the Windows
of that Old Church ; and within the Walls of that Old Church
toward the East end thereof standeth a stone altar of curious
Workmanship about two ells in height.

Provest Slich younger told me, that they have a Charted
granted byKingRobert theBruce. Their newCharter of the date
1624 includes great Priviledges, & favours, & notes of antiquity.

VOU III. E

66 HADDINGTON

The foresaid Provest told me likewise that there was a Peal of
three good Bells carried away by the English, when they left
the town, after they had long kept out the same against the
French ; and that it was known, they belonged to Hadingtoun
at their new Casting in Durhame, about six or seven years
ago, by the High goat upon them, the armes proper to Had-
ingtoun.

Near a hundred years since, the half of the toun was burnt
by a casual fire ; after which time, it seems, arose that yearly
Custome which is there, of the Bell-man^s going through the
Town with the Handbell and after tinkling of the same, to
pronounce a Rhime willing the Inhabitants to guard against
fire ; and this is done every night at nine of the dock between
Hallow tide & Candlemass.

Within the toun near to the East port, there is a great
house called Saint Annex's Chappel to which, even unto this
day, about fourscore houses within the toun are bound by
their Charter to pay yearly a small few duty. By an ancient
Institution, that House was to have a Chaplain, who was once
in the year to sing a Psalm there, which was all the duty he
was obliged to perform for his salary, being the few-duties
above mentioned.

There was a Large Stone wall, now ruinous alongst the
North side of the town.

Without the toun, upon the southwestside thereof on a
Brae head at the River side, there are to be seen the Vestiges
70. of an old fortification, round in form, named New-work, to
this day.

On the side of the old church, there is a magnificent Tomb
built within an Isle made for the purpose by the Earle of
Lauderdale the late Duke of Lauderdale^s father, made of
black and white Marble. There is the lively Effigies of Chan-
cellour Maitland and his Lady lying in their just dimensions,
with Pillows under their heads all of them marble, richly
gilded. At their feet are the statues of the Dukes father
and mother, of the same matter A: in the same posture. Un-
derneath these, is a breast of black Marble reaching to the
pavement and containing the Inscription, which, if it be cleanly
rubbed, will be as bright as a Mirrour. In the higher part of

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the Tomb, are statues of the Dukes Sisters representing them
from the Girdle upward. On the right band within the door
of the Isle, is a Vault in which the Corpses are set upon Buffet
stools, being let down thither, after the lifting up of some
square stones, which have great Iron rings fastened to them
for that end.

The River is passable at the East port of the Town by a
stately stone Bridge of three great Arches, toward the West
end whereof at the head of the Arch on the outside, there is
a strong Iron cleek from which they were wont to hang Male-
factors that were sentenced to dy. On the East side of the
River, after you have passed that bridge, there is a goodly
Village called NunGate having this denomination from a
Monastery of Nuns, that had formerly been there where is yet
standing an old Vaulted Chappel called St. Martins Chappel
within an inclosed peice of ground. In this place the Inhabi-
tants of the said Village still bury their dead.

In the southwest end of the Village is the house where John
Knox was said to be bom. John Major was borne at Glegonie.

About half a mile from this Bridge doun the River there is
another Bridge on the Northside of which remain the ruins of
a stately Abbay built by Adama in the year 1182.

The Town is situated three miles from the sea, yet have 71,
they the privilege of a Port at Aberlady, and an highway to
it forty foot broad, as also they have another highway through
Gladsmoor about three miles West from the toun eighty foot
broad.

There are here two great fairs yearly, each of them lasting
some dayes viz : St. Michel the 29 of Sept' and St. Peter the
29 of June. They have two weekly markets on Weddensday
and Friday, well frequented and the best for com in Scotland.

They are governed by a Provest Bailies Dean of Gild,

Treasurer & Town Council. They bear for their Arms & Town
Seal, a Goat buck passant. Argent and Azur.

Newmilns house is betwixt Hadingtoun and the Abbay on
the river. Newmilns belongeth to the company with a con-
siderable Village built lately for the Manufactorie men, the
best in this countrie and indeed with priviledges by act of
Parliament.

68 EXCISE IN SHIRES AND BURGHS

A True and Exact State of the YEARLY
ANNUITY of FORTY THOUSAND
POUNDS sterling payable to His
Majestie.

By the thirteenth Act of the first session of this Parliament^
this Kingdom made ofi^r to his Majesty of forty thousand
pounds sterling yearly during his lifetime to be raised by way
of Excise.

By the fourteenth Act of that session, there is eight
thousand pounds sterling to be raised off the Inland-Salt,
forrein Commodities, and exported Bestial; and thirty two
thousand pounds sterling to be raised out of the respective
Shires and Burghs of the Kingdom for the Bear, Ale and Aqua
vitse brewed and sold within the same in maner mentioned in
the said Act.

It is expressly provided That the superplus of the Excise of
the Inland Salt, forrein commodities, and exported Bestial^
more than the eight thousand pounds sterling shall be im-
ployed for the relief of such Shires and Burghs, as should be
found to be overrated.
7t By several Abatements given to Shires & Burghs, that
were over rated The forsaid sum of thirty two thousand
pounds sterling is reduced to twenty nine thousand, three
hundred, twenty five pounds sixteen shillings sterling.

The Remainder of the said forty thousand pounds being ten
thousand six hundred threescore fourteen pounds four shillings
Sterling is payed out of the Inland salt, exported Bestial &

forrein commodities in manner following, to wit :

Sterling, lib^

For the Excise of the forrein salt. 0400.
For the Excise of the remanent forrein

Commodities. 9500.

For the Excise of the Inland salt. 0625.

For the Excise of the Exported Bestial. 0150.

Extending in the whole to the sum of ten^

thousand six hundred, threescore fifteen V 10675'*^^

pounds sterling money. j

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Upon complaint of several Shires and Burghs, That they
were unequally rated, The proportions of Excise were in
several Shires & Burghs altered this last session of Parlia-
ment; and the samine ordained to be payed as folI(tweth
viz:

Sterl. monej.

The Shire of Edinburgh prin" 2140" 00* OO**

The Town of Edinburgh 2982 00 00

The Shire of Hadingtoun 1291

The Shire of Berwick 0610

The Shire of Roxburgh 0772

The Shire of Selkirk 0147

The Shire of Peebles 0187

The Shire of Lanerk 0968

The Town of Glasgow 1076

The Shiie of Wigtoun 0271

The Shire of Drumfreis 0656

ITie Stewartry of Kirkcudbright 0461

Tlie Shire of Air 1689

The Shire of Dumbartown 0264

The Shire of Boot 0067

The Shire of Renfrew 0467

The Shire of Sterling 0960

The Shire of Linlithgow 0799

The Shire of Perth 2874

The Shire of Eincardin 0868

The Shire of Aberdeen 2418

The Shire of Bamf 0447

The Shire of Innemess 0794

The Shire of Elgin and Nairn 0696

The Shire of Cromartie 0024

The Shire of Argile 0448

The Shire of Fife and Kinross 3608

The Shire of Forfar 1024

The Town of Dundee 0718

'Vhe Shire of Sutherland 0072

The Shire of Caithness 016S

The Shire of Orkney and Zetland 0248

The Shire of Clackmanan 0206

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Salt, and exported Bestial is 10675 00 00

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This exceeds the forty thousand pound sixteen shillings
sterling yearly.

ACT of EXCISE.

74. The Commissioners of Excise in the respective Shires and
Burghs, who are the persons that have greatest interest therein,
are by the Act of Parliament lyable to his Majesty and those
appointed by him for the Excise of their respective Shires and
Burghs : And to pay in the same at four termes Whitsunday,
Lammas, Martimass and Candlemass. And to have their
relief off the Shires and Burghs.

The saids Commissioners are impowered to pronounce
Decreets ag*^ the Deficients & poynd upon the samine or raise
general Letters there upon ; and if need be, to quarter souldiers
till payment of the Deficiency & Charges.

An Account of the LAW and GOVERN-
MENT of SCOTLAND given to me by
the right Honourable Sir George Mac-
kenzie His Majestie's Advocate.

Tit. I. Of the LAW of SCOTLAND.

The Romans having studied exactly the Principles of Ekjuity
ft Justice, their Emperour Justinian did cause digest all their
Laws into one Body, which is now called by all Nations The
Civill Law. and as this Civill Law is much respected generally
over all Europe ; so it is received in Scotland, except where
express Law or Custome has receded from it. And by the

LAW AND GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND 71

Common Law in our Acts of Parliament is meant the Civil
Law.

Churchmen also made a Body of Law for regulating matters
Ecclesiastick and this is called the Canon Law. and though it
was compiled by several private men at the command of Popes,
and so has here no positive Authority since the Reformation ;
yet our Ecclesiastick Rights were settled before the Reforma-
tion. And because many things in that I-aw were founded
upon Justice and Equity, and exactly calculated for all
Churchmen therefore that Law is yet much respected amongst
us, especially in what relates to Conscience and Church Affairs.

The particular Laws and Customes of each Nation are
called their Municipal Law ; & our Municipal Law of Scot-
land consists either in our Written Law, or our Unwritten
Law.

Our Written Law comprehends 1° Our Statutory Law, which
consists of our Statutes or Acts of Parliament. 9P The Acts of 75.
Sederunt which are the Statutes made by the Lords of Council
and Session, by vertue of a particular Act of Parliam : im-
powering them to make such Constitutions as they shall think
fit for ordering the procedure & forms of administrating Justice.
And they are called Acts of Sederunt, because they are made
by the Lords sitting in Judgement. S° The Books of Regiam
Mcgesiatem which are generally lookt upon by us as a part of
our Law ; and they and the Leges Burgorum and the other
Treatise joyned by Skeen to them are caird the Old Books of
oar Law by many express Acts of Parliament, though the
Books of Regiam Mcgestaiem were originally but the Works of
one private Lawyer writing by way of Institutions and are
now very much abrogated by Custome.

Our Unwritten Law comprehends 1** The constant Tract of
Decisions past by the Lords of the Session, which is considered
as Law ; and the Lords very much respect their own single
Decisions and though they may, yet they used not to recede
from them, except upon grave considerations. ^ These Cus-
tomes which have been universally received amongst us, the
tacite consent of the people operating as much in these as
their express consent doth in making Statutes. And such is
the force of consuetude or custome, that if a Statute has, after

72 LAW AND GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND

a long standing, never been in observance, or having been, has
run in desuetude, consuetude prevails over the Statute, till it
be renewed either by a succeeding Parliament, or by a Pro-
clamation from the Council : for though the Council cannot
make Laws yet they may revive them.

Tit. IL Of JURISDICTION and JUDGES in general

Having resolved to follow Justinian^s method, to the end
there may be as little difference found betwixt the Civil Law
and ours as can be ; and that the Reader may not be distracted
by different methods, I do resolve first to lay down what con-
cerns the persons of whom the Law treats 2^ What concerns
76, the things themselves treated of, such as Rights Obligations
ft® S^ The Actions whereby these Rights are pursued. Per^onct^
Res Actiones.

The chief Persons treated of in Law are either Civil or
Ecclesiastick the chief of both which are Judges. And for
understanding their duty, it is fit to know, that Jurisdiction is
a power granted to a Magistrate to cognosce upon and deter-
mine in causes, and to put them to execution in such manner,
as either his Commission, Law or Practique doth allow.

All Jurisdiction flows originally from the King ; and none
have power to make Deputes except it be contained in their
Commission. If this Depute appoint any under him, that
Sub-Depute is properly called a Substitute, and every Judge
is answerable for the injustice committed by his Depute.

Jurisdiction is either Cumulative or Privative. Cumula-
tive as when two Judges have power to Judge the same thing.
And generally it is to be remembred, that the King is never
so denuded, but that he retains an inherent Power to make
other Judges with the same power that he gave in former
Commissions. And thus he may erect Lands in a R^fality
within the bounds of a Sherifship, and Burghs Royal within
the bounds of a Regality. And these bounds within which a
Judge may exercise his Commission are called his Territory.
So that if any Judge exercise Jurisdiction without his Terri-
tory, his sentence is null. And amongst these , who have a
Cumulative Jurisdiction, he who first cites, can only Judge &
this is called Jus prcevmtuyfiis.

LAW AND GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND 78

Privative Jurisdiction is that, whereby one Judge has the
sole power, as the Lords of Session have, in Judging all Com-
petitions betwixt such as have Heretable Rights &® and there
can be no prevention in this case.

Jurisdiction is founded to any Judge; either because the 77.
Defender dwells within his Territory, which is called soHiri
Jorum ratione domicilii or ^ because the Crime was committed
in his Territory, which is called ratione delicti. S^ If the person
to be pursued, have any Estate within the Territory, though
be live not within the same, he may be persued by any Action
to affect that Estate, which is called ratione ret ntce.

A Jurisdiction is said to be prorogate, when a person not
otherwise subject to it submitts to it.

All Judges with us must take the Oath of Allegiance and
the Test, whereby they swear to maintain the Government of
Church & State as it is now established and an Oath deJldeU
4Mdminigtraiione^ before he Judge; and no excommunicate
person nor rebell can judge by our Law.

If a man be pursued before a Judge, who is not competent,
he may complain to the Lords of Session and they will grant
liCtters of Advocation, whereby they will Advocate that is to
«ay call it to themselves : And if after these Letters are inti-
mate to that Judge, he yet proceed his Decreet will be null
-spreto mandato Jtidids superioris. But if that person com-
pear before a Judge, though otherwayes incompetent, and
propone Defences, he cannot afterwards decline him.

Jurisdictions are divided with us into Supreme &. inferiour
Jurisdictions.

Tlie Supreme Courts of Scotland are the Parliament, the
Privy Council, the Lords of Session, the Criminal Court, the
Exchequer, and the High Admiral.

The Inferiour Courts are Sherifs, Stewards, Lords of Regality,
•Commissars, Inferiour Admirals, Magistrates of Burghs Royall,
Barons and Justices of Peace.

No inferiour Judge can judge in Cases relating to such as are 78.
<»usin germans to him or of a nearer degree either of AflSnity
•or Consanguinity. But there is so much trust reposed in the
Lords of Session that by a special statute, they can only be
<leclined in Cases relating to their Fathers, brothers sons,

74 LAW AND GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND

Nephews or Uncles ; which is likewise extended to d^rees oF
Affinity and to the Lords of Privy Councill and Exchequer and
the Commissioners of Justiciary and to all Judges within the
Kingdom. The Members of the CoUedge of Justice have this
• Priviledge, that they cannot be pursued before any inferiour
Judge.

Tit. III.
Of the SUPREME JUDGES sc COURTS of SCOTLAND.

The King is the Author and Fountain of all Power. Our
King is an absolute monarch, having as much power as any
King or Potentate what soever. The special Priviledges which
he has are called his Prerogatives Royal ; such as that he only
can make Peace or War, call Parliaments, Conventions, Convo-
cations of the Clergy ; and generally all Meetings called with-
out his special command are punishable. He only can remit
Crimes, legitimate Bastards, name Judges and Counsellours^
give Tutours dative & naturalize strangers: and is Supreme
over all persons and in all Causes civil as well as Ecdesiastick.

The Parliament was of old only the King^s Baron Court ; in
which all Freeholders were obliged to give sute and presence
in the same manner that men yet appear at other Head Courts.
And therefore since we had Kings long before we had Parlia-
ments it is ridiculous to think that the Kings power flowed
from them. The Parliament is now called upon 40 days,
though it may be adjourned upon twenty ; but of old, it was
called by Breves out of the Chancellary. It consists of three
Estates viz. the Archbishops and Bishops; and before the
Reformation all Abbots and MiterM Priours sate as Church-
men. 2^ The Barons in which Estate are comprehended all
Dukes, Marquesses, Earles, Viscounts, Lords and the Com-
79, missioners for the Shires : for of old, all Barons who held of
the King, did come ; but the Estates of Lesser Barons not
being able to defray this charge, they were allowed to send
Commissioners for every Shire and generally every Shire sends
two who have their charges bom by the Shire. S** The Com-
missioners of Burghs Royal, each whereof is allowed one and
the Town of Edinburgh two. Though all the three Estates
must be cited, yet the Parliament may proceed, albeit any one

LAW AND GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND 75

Estate were absent, or being present, would disassent. The
I^egislative Power is only in the King; and the Estates of
Parliament only consent ; and in Parliament the King has a
Negative Voice, whereby he may not only hinder any Act to
pass; but even any Overture to be debated. The Acts of
Parliament must be proclaimed upon forty dayes, that the
Lieges may know them.

We have another Meeting of the three Estates called the
Convention of Estates, which is now called upon twenty dayes,
and proceeds in the same way, that the Parliament doth^
differing only from it, in that the Parliament can both impose
Taxations and make Laws, whereas the Convention of Estates
can only impose or rather offer Taxations and make Statutes
for uplifting that particular Taxation, but can make no Laws.
And of old I find by the Registers of the Conventions, the
eldest whereof now extant is in anno 1583 ; That the Conven-
tions of Estates consisted of any number of the three Estates
called off the streets summarly by the King ; and yet they cryed
down or up money and judged Processes which now they do not.

The Privy Council is constitute by a special Commission
from the King, and regularly their Power extends to matters
of publick Government. In order to which they punish all
Riots, for so we call breach of the peace, they sequestrate
Pupils, give Aliments to them & to Wives who are severely
used by their Husbands ; and many such things, which require
such summar procedure, as cannot admit of the delays neces-
sary before other Courts. And yet if any of these dip upon
matter of Law, (for they are only Judges infacto^ this would
be clear) they remit the cognition of it to the Session and stop m.
till they hear their report. The Council also delay Criminal
Executions and sometimes change one Punishment into another :
but they cannot remit Capital Punishments. They may also
adjourn the Session, or any other Court. It has its own Presi-
dent in the Chancellours absence & its own signet or seal.
All who are cited to compear here, must be personally present,
because ordinarly the Pursuer concludes that they ought to be
personally punished. All Diets there are peremptore. All
Debate is by Writ, no Advocate being allowed to plead,
because the Council are only Judges in matters of fact.

The Lords of Council & Session are Judges in all matters of

76 LAW AND GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND

Civil right. Of old they were chosen by the Parliament, and
were a Commission of Parliaments but tiie present Model was
fixt ft established after the Model of the Parliam : of Paris, by
King James the fifth. Of old it consisted of seven Ecclesi-
asticks ft seven Laicks and the President was a Churchman ; but
now all the fifteen are I^cks and there sit with them four
Noblemen, who are called Extraordinary Lords, ft were allowed
to sit, to learn rather than decide. But now they vote after
the Ordinary Lords. All the Lords are named by the King
and by statute cannot be admitted till they be twenty five
years of age, and except they have a thousand Merks or twenty
Chalders of Victual in yearly Rent. Nine are a Quorum.

Crimes of old were judged by the Justice Greneral, Justice
Clerk and two Justice Deputes ; but now four Lords of the
Session are adjoyned to the Justice General ft Justice Clerk
and they are called the Commissioners of the Justiciary be-
cause they sit by a speciall Commission only, four of which
number make a Quoinim in time of Session, three in time of
Vacance and two at Circuit Courts.

The Exchequer is the King's Chamberlain Court : wherein
he Judges what concerns his own Revenue. It consists of the
Treasurer, (in whose place are sometimes named Commis-
sioners of the Treasury) the Treasurer Depute and as many of
th^ Lords of Exchequer as His Majesty pleases.
^^* The High Admiral has Commission from the King to judge
in all maritime aflkirs, not only in Civil, but also in Criminal
Cases where the Crime is committed at sea or within Floud-
Mark. Nor can the Lords of the Session advocate causes from
him, though they can reduce his Decreets as he doth the
Decreets of all inferiour Admirals or Admiral Deputes : for
many Heretours are constitute Admirals within themselves by
a Right from the High Admiral since his Gift, or from the
King before it.

Tit. IV. Of INFERIOUR JURISDICTIONS and COURTS.

The Sherif is the King's Chief and ancient Officer, for pre-
serving the Peace, and putting the Laws in execution. He
has both a Civil and Criminall Jurisdiction and his Commis-

LAW AND GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND 77

sion is under the Great Seal. He is obliged to raise the
Hue and Cry after all Rebels and to apprehend them, when
required ; to assist such as are violently dispossessed ; to appre-
hend such as say Mass. or trouble the peace and take Caution
for their appearance. He nor no Inferiour Judge can hold
Courts in time of Vacance in Civil Cases, withont a Dispensa-
tion from the Lords of Session : but in Criminal Cases,
he needs no Dispensation, because Crimes should be instantly
punished.

He is Judge in all Crimes, except the Pleas of the Crown :
but Murder he can judge, if the Murderer was taken with red
hand that is to say, immediately committing the Murder, in
which case he must proceed against him within three suns ; and
in theft he may Judge, if the thief was taken with the fang.

The Sherif is also Judge competent to punish Bloudwits.
for which he may fine in fifty pounds Scots, and no higher and
for Contumacy he can fine no higher then ten pounds money
foresaid.

A Lord of Regality is he, who has the Land-holding of
him, and his own Land erected with a Jurisdiction equal to
the Justices in Criminal Cases and to the Sherif in Civil Cases.
He has also Right to all the Moveables of Delinquents and 8*
Rebels, who dwell within his own Jurisdiction, whether these
Moveables be within his Regality or without the same. And
because he has so great power, therefore no Regality can
legally be granted except in Parliament.

The Lord of Regality has also, by his Erection, power to
repledge from the Sheri£9 and even from the Justices in all
Cases except Treason and the Pleas of the Crown ; that is to
say, to appear ft crave that any dwelling within his Jurisdic-
tion may be sent back to be judg'd by him, and he is obliged
to find Caution, that he shall do Justice upon the Male-,
factours whom he repledges, within year and day. And this
Caution is called Culreach.

The Stewart is the Kings Sherif within the Kings own
proper Lands ; and these were erected, where the Lands had
been erected before in Earledomes or Lordships : for else the
King appointed only a Bailie in them, and these Jurisdictions
are called Railleries. And all these viz: the Sherif, the

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Stewart and the Lord of Regality proceed in their Courts
after the same way, and each of them has a Headburgh, where
they hold their Courts, and where ail Letters must be executed
and registered.

The Prince of Scotland has also an Appanage or Patrimony,
q®^ is erected in a Jurisdiction called the Principality. The
Revenue comes into the Exchequer, when there is no Prince ;
but when there is one, he has his own Chamberlain.

Justices of Peace are these, who are appointed by the King
or Privy Council, to advert to the keeping of the Peace; and
they are Judges to Riots, Servants fees 8c\ and many such
relating to good neighbourhood exprest in the Instructions
given them by the Parliament and are named by the Council.

Every Heretour may hold Courts, for causing his Tenants
pay his Rent, and if he be infeft cum curiis, he may decide
ss, betwixt Tenant and Tenant in small debts, and may judge
such as commit bloud upon his own ground, though his land
be not erected in a Barony. But if his Land be erected in a
Barony, which the King can only do, he may, like the SherifT,
unlaw for Bloudwits in fifty pounds and for absence, in ten.
And, if he have power of Pit and Gallows, he may hang or
drown in the same maner as the Sherif can.

Tit. V. Of ECCLESIASTICK PERSONS.

Since the Reformation, the King is come by our Law, in
place of the Pope, and all Rights to Church lands must be
confirmed by him, elte they are null. His Majesty only can
call Convocations of the Clergy, for so we call our National
Assemblies. His Majesties Commissioner sits in them, and
has a Negative.

We have two Archbishops and twelve Bishops, and they
are thus elected; The King sends to the Chapter a Conge
dTeslire which is a french word signifying a power to elect ;
and with it, a Letter recommending a person therein named,
and the Chapter returns their Election ; where upon the King
grants a Patent to the person and a Mandate to the Arch-
bishop or Bishops to consecrate him, both which pass the
Great Seal.

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The Archbishops and Bishops have the sole power of calling
Synods within their own Dioceses and in these they name the
Brethren of the Conference, who are like to the Lords of
Articles in Parliament and by their advice, the Bishops depose,
suspend and manage.

Bishops have their Chapters, without whose consent or the
major part, the Bishop cannot alienate, which major part
must sign the deeds done by the Bishop : and it is sufficient, if
those of the Chapter sign at any time, even after the Bishop,
but it must be in his lifetime. Nor are Minors, or absents
counted, and one having two Benefices has two Votes. But
the appending of the Seal is by special statute, declared to be
sufficient in Deeds done by the Archbishop of St, Andrews,
without the subscriptions of the Chapter.

A Parson or Rector Ecclesise is he, who is presented to the
whole stipend jure proprio. but because of old Personages ^'^.
were bestowed on Monasteries, therefore they sent Vicars, who
served them, and who got a share of the stipend for their
pains, either ad placitum, and they were called simple Vicars :
or for life and they were called perpetual Vicars. And after
the Reformation, the Churches, which so belonged to them,
continued Vicarages still, the Titular, who came in place of
the Convent, retaining the Right to the Personage duties.

There were, in time of Popery, Collegiate Churches built
and doted by Kings and great men for singing of Mass, which
were governed by a Provest, and some for singing, who were
called Prebends. And because some Parish Churches were
wide, some were allowed to build a Chappel for their private
Devotion. And since the Reformation, those Chaplainries
and Prebendries are allowed to be bestowed by the Patron
upon Bursers in Colledges, notwithstanding the Foundations.

For understanding all these, it is fit to know, that the
Primitive Church either to invite men to build and dote, or to
reward such as had, did allow such as had built, or had
bestowed the ground, whereon to build, or had doted a
Church already built ; either to present alone, if they were the
only Benefactours or by turns, if they were mo, and they were
called Patrons or Advocati Ecclesiarum.

When a Church vaiks, the Patron must present within six

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moneths a fit person to the Bishop, else the Right of Pre-
sentation belongs to the Bishop Jvre devohiio. But if the
Bishop refuse, the Patron must complain to the Archbishop :
and if he also refuse or delay, the Privy Council will grant
Letters of Homing against the Bishop, to receive the person
presented.

Upon this presentation, the Bishop causes serve an Edict
on nine dayes, wherein all persons are after divine service,
advertised to object why such a man should not be their
Minister. And if none object, the Bishop confers the
Church and Benefice upon the Person presented and this is
85. called a Collation. After which the Bishop causes enter him
who is thus collated, by causing give him the Bible and the
Keys of the Church and this is called Institution. P)resenta-
tion gives only Jits ad rem, and Institution Jtis in re^ and is as
a Seasine.

If the Bishop be Patron himself, he confers pleno Jure and
the Presentation and Collation are the same.

Bishops also have Mensal Churches so called, because they
are de menm Episcopiy being a part of his Patrimony, in
which he serves by his Vicar and plants as Diocesan Bishop.
And if a Town or Parish resolve to make a second Minister
when they are not Patrons, this is called a Stipendiary
Minister; and he is Collated and Instituted also. But the
Patron's Presentation is sufiicient in Prebendries and other
Benefices, which have not curam aniniarumy 8c that without
the necessity of Collation or Institution, the Bishop having no
other interest in the Benefices, but in so far as they concern
the care of souls.

If the Bishop refuse a person, who is qualified, recourse
must be had to the Archbishop ; and if the Archbishop refuse,
then the Council will give Letters of Homing to charge the
Ordinary to receive the person presented; and the Patron
may, during the refusal, retain the whole fruits of the Benefice
in his own hand, though ordinarily Vacant Stipends are
allotted by the Parliament for Universities and other publick
uses.

By Act of Parliament, with us all Ministers must have a
competent stipend, not below eight Chalders- Victual or eight

LAW AND GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND 81

hundred Merks (except there be just reason to give less)
together with a Manse and Gleeb.

The Manse a manendo^ is the place where the Minister is
to dwell. The Gleeb from Gkha terrce^ is a peice of Land
for fodder and com to his beasts. If there was a Manse of
old belong to the Parson or Vicar, the Minister has right to
it ; if there was none, the Parishioners must build one, not
exceeding one thousand pounds and not beneath 500 Merks,
at the sight of the Bishop of the Diocese or such Ministers as
he shall appoint with two or three of the most discreet men of 86^
the Parish, as also the Heritors are lyable to repair the Manse,
but the present Incumbent is obliged to leave it in as good
condition as they gave it to him.

The Ministers Gleeb is to comprehend four acres of Arable
Land, or sixteen sums grass, Where there is no arable Land,
which is to be designed out of the Lands which belonged of
old to Abbots, Priors, Bishops, Friers, or any other Eirklands
within the Parish, with freedome of foggage, pasturage for a
horse and two cows, feuel, fail and divot. Wliich Gleebs are
to be designed by Ministers named by the Bishop, with the
advice of two of the most honest and godly of the Parishioners
and the Designation is to be signed by the Designers.

There is a Committee of the Parliament alwayes sitting,
called the Commission for plantation of kirks or Valuation of
Teynds, consisting of so many of every Estate of Parliament,
who have power to modify and augment Ministers Stipends
and to unite and disjoyn churches ft®, whose Decreets, because
they are a Committee of Parliament ; cannot be reduced by
the Session or any other Judicature.

The Primitive Christians remitted the cognition of all
Cases that related to Religion, as the matters of Divorce,
Bastardy, the protection of dying men's Estates, to their
Bishops : and such as they imployed under them were called
Officials and are with us called Commissars and called there-
fore Judices Christicmitaiis, And they are therefore ye only
Judges in Divorce, because it is the breach of a Vow ; and to
scandal because it is an offence against Christianity ; and of
Teynds and Benefices, because these are the Patrimony of the
Church and in all matters referred to Oath if the same exceed

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not forty pounds Scotts because an Oath is an Religious

Ty.

Every Bishop has his Commissar, who has his Commission
from the Bishop only ; and this extends no further than the
Constituents Diocese. But the Archbishop of St. Andrews
^, has power to name four Commissars who are called the Com-
missars of Edinburgh, because they sit there, and they only
are Judges to Divorce upon Adultery and can only declare
marriages null for Impotency and to Bastardy, when it has
any connexion with Adultery or Marriage and they only may
reduce the sentences of all the Inferiour Commissars tiiough
the Lords of the Session may reduce even their Decreets and
Sentences. They have Instructions from the King, which are
their Rule; ft these are likewise recorded in the Books of
Sedenmt of the Session.

g^^j^^^ ANSWERS to the GENERAL
land'" QUERIES concerning CAITH-

NESS given in by M' William

DUNDAS.

SCHEME of CAITHNESS.
1 The Sherifdome of Caithness in its
situation doth much resemble a right angled
Triangle, from the Ord-Hill which is upon
the German Ocean and which is the only
entry to the Countrey from the South by
land (albeit so strait that two men can
hardly mount the hill abreast, which is very
steep) to the Northwest comer at Sand side
head may be supposed the Hypotenuse from the same Hill, a
line North in the midle whereof stands Week facing the
German Ocean, till ye come to Duncansbay liead, may repre-
sent one side of the right Angle ft from that head a line West,
(near the middle whereof stands Thurso) facing Fentland firth
till ye come to Sandsidehead, may represent the other side.

The Countrey in general is rather uneven by easy Ascents a
Descents than Hilly. That part toward the Hypotenuse is

CAITHNESS 83

the more mountainous, and yet hath many straths and spots
of Meadow and Arable Ground, bearing good Bear and Black
Oats, the only Grain of the Countrey, and the whole hath
good pasturage for Cows, Sheep and Goats. The other two 88.
are ftdl of good Meadow and Pasture, but most fertile of the
saids two GSmains. Few parts are far from good Moss, which
furnishes the Countrey with fire. And where there is no
meadow, Links or arable ground, the rest is less or more
heathy as it is distant from the sea, in which there are great
store of Black Cock, and Heath hens, especially toward the
Hills and Moorfoul all over. There are but few Hares and
Fatridges, especially toward the sea, because of the great
numbers of Hawks, which have their Airies in all the Pro-
montories on that Coast. The people for the most part,
speak both Irish and English. But if ye suppose a Parallel
to the Hypotenuse drawn from Week to Thurso, these on the
Eastside of it speak most part English, and those on the
Westside Irish ; and the last have Ministers that preach to
them in both Languages. Near the center of the Triangle is
Spittle hill, of a long but easy Ascent ; the place of Rendevous,
when the Inhabitants design, or are commanded to any
Expedition.

2 As to Plants, Cairmuks a Gentleman there, who studies
Medicine, can give the best account. Abundance of Lead-
Ore at Dinnet : Copper at Oldwick ; and Iron-Ore in many
places.

3 The Forrests of Moravins and Berridail have plenty of
red Dear and Roes. There is but little Wood, because of the
Gusts from the North west sea ; and that which is at Berridail
is Birch rising to no great height. Other Planting doth
hardly overtop the Walls of the Enclosures. There are
abundance of springs over all the Countrey. there are two
near Brebsterdoran, which continually cast up as much water
as would make a Mill go Summer and Winter. There is one
betwixt Halkirk and Spittle blessed by some Saint and much
reverenced & frequented by the Commons both for Religion
and Medicine; another in the Bay betwixt Thurso and
Scrabster, far within the Floud mark, which in the smooths,
sands at an Ebb water doth throw out, at several Vents, a

84 CAITHNESS

great deal of fresh Water, which they say was occasioned by
the fall of a Saint ; that used to walk there, because the Vents
resemble the print of a man^s fingers mouth, eyes &^. The
Rivers take name from the places where they empty them-
selves in the sea. The southmost is the Water of Beridail
arising from the hills, running East, and entering into the sea
a little below the Bridge. Next the Water of Dumbeth
arising and running the same way. thirdly that of Week
arising from the Lochs of Watting, Scarmlet and Tachingaw^
running east and which hath a Wooden Bridge at Week.
Fourthly that of Ris arising from the Loch of Waster, running
Northeast a mile to the sea. fifthly the Water of Thurso,
arising from Lochmore and running North, degorgeth at
Thurso. 6^^ that of Fors arising from the Loch of Broubster,
and running as the last* Besides these Lochs there is the
Loch of Duren, wherein many Swans do breed and feed, the
Loch of Caddel and the Loch of Alterwall. In all the rivers^
particularly that of Thurso, there are good salmon fishings
and they are pretty rapid, except that of Week. The Lochs
abound with trouts of diverse kinds, and Eels, of a huge
lenth and bigness. In Wattin there is a fish as big as a
salmon : but few or none of them have been taken since the
English were there, who used to fish them.

4 Scrabster Road two miles westward from Thurso is a
good and secure place for ships of any number or burden to
ride at, being defended by Holbumhead. The harbours for
livering and loading are Thurso water (Week, Staxigo^
Murkle, Ham for small Vessels) A south East Moon makes
High Water. The Promontories are 1 Sandsidehead at the
West end of Caithness, pointing North to the opening of
Pentland firth on the West end thereof. 2 Holbum-head.
3 Dinnethead, both pointing North to the firth. 4 Dun-
cansbay-head which is the North east point of Caithness where
the Firth is but 12 miles over. Near it is the ordinary ferry
SO. to Orkney called Duncansbay, and by West that, an Island
about two miles in lenth belonging to Caithness called
Stroma, some of the Inhabitants have the second sight, by
west that, are several Whirlepools in the sea, with many con-
trary Tides, that run in the firth with a strong current all at

CAITHNESS 85

once, which in dead calm Weather occasions both wonder and
hazard to strangers, and the ferriers themselves do not then
pass but near the High or Low Water, when the Currents do
not run. 5 Noshead pointing Northeast. 6 Clythness point*
ing East. The whole Coast is high Rocks except Thurso,
Murkle and Ris bayes and some other small Inletts.

5 There are many foundations of ruinous houses supposed
to belong to the Picts, to be seen every where, many long
stones erected in several places, and sometimes many of them
together : but the Inscriptions, if any have been, are worn
out.

6 It is reported, that the Danes were once beat on the
Moor of Clair Dane betwixt Murkle and Thurso, from which
that place hath its name. There have been many Inrodes and
Depredations committed by Caithness on Southerland and
Strathnavern &; by them on Caithness. In the time of the
late troubles one Alaster Macdonald an Irish man, and Niel
Williamson a Strathnavernian came to Thurso with about an
hundred armed men on a Saterday, and demanded a great sum
of money to save the Town and Countrey from Plunder : and
because it was not presently raised, they drunk all night : and
nixt day came to the Church yard. When the people were at
sermon, with a resolution to burn Church and all. Sir James
Sinclair of Murkle and some other Gentlemen and Inhabitants
about 14 came out of the Church and having got some arms,
did set upon the Robbers and killed their two Captains and
several others upon the place, having lost but one of their
number, but all of them were wounded.

The late Greorge Earle of Caithness having disponed his own
and his Grand Uncles Estate with all his Titles of Honour and 91.
Jurisdictions to Campbell of Glenurchie, in prejudice of his
Grand Uncles Son, who was appearand Heir, Glenurchie did
possess himself of all. George the appearand Heir went into
Caithness and by assistance of some friends did repossess his
Fathers Estate and did some prejudice to the new Earles
Houses. Upon which the Earle obtained a party of the
Kings forces, and what friends he could make to assist the
Sherif of Innemess to repone him to the possession, but he
having gathered together about 800 men did enter the Coun-

86 CAITHNESS

trey without the Sherif, Earle George knowing of his Motion^
had gathered two or three hundred Commons together, who
having gone to Week, were followed at a distance by E. John.
But E. George^s men, being far inferiour in number and arms^
resolved to return to their Houses quietly, and going without
care or order, as from a fair, E. John who waited this oppor-
tunity, set upon them about a mile from Week and killed
and drowned in the Water of Week above 80, beside many
wounded, most part after they had thrown away their Arms
and sought Quarter, for which and other crimes there is Pro*
cess of Treason depending against the said E. John

7 There is nothing peculiar to them.

8 I know no Monasteries. The Cathedral of Caithness is
in Southerland which with Stratnavem and Assint makes the
Diocese of Caithness. The churches are Rae, Halkirk, and
Latheran, on the Hypotenuse, then Thurso, Olrick, Dinnet^
Duncansbay, to the North, Week to the East, and Bower &
Wattin in the middle. There hath been a Hospital called St.
Magnus his hospitall at Spittle. In every little Village or
Manour there are Chappels.

9 The Shire gives Title to the Earle, who is also Lord
Sinclair of Berridail. Of old, the Earles of Caithness, Marshal
and Lord Oliphant had each the third Ridge of Caithness,
llie first resided at Castle Sinclair, the second at the Castle
of Akergill on the North ; the last at Oldweek Castle on the
South ; all on the East sea, and near to one another.

9», 10 The E. of Caithness was Heretable Justiciar of Caith*
ness, Southerland Stratnavem and Assint ; Heretable Sherif
and Chamberlain of Caithness. And there is a Commissariat

' for the Spiritual Jurisdiction. The Judges and Clerks reside
most at Thurso and do only keep Head-Courts at Week and
date their Registrations there.

11 Week is a Burgh Royal and Thurso is but a Burgh of
Barony though the more populous. The first founded by the
Earles of Caithness or Lords Oliphant, the second but of late,
by the Lairds of Murkle. They export Beef, Tallow, Hides,
Butter, Cheese, Meal, Bear, Plaidins. Some Oyl, wild Leather
and Furres, Salmon, white fish and slates ; and return Wine
Brandy, Salt, Lime, Cloth, Silks & Cramery- Ware.

CArrHNESS— ABERDEEN 87

12 The Militia-Regiment commanded bj Tarbat, and
troup commanded by the Earle of Caithness is proportioned
with Southerland and Ross & Strathnavem. There is an old
Castle called Gimego, but the King hath no property there.

The most considerable of the Grentry are of the name of
Sinclair descended of the Earles Family. Murkle*s Grand-
father was second brother to George Earl of Caithness.
Mayers Predecessour was third brother to the said George^s
fisither. Of Maye's Family, Dumbeth and his brethren are
descended. Ulbster and Brimes are descended of the said
George^s second brother. Rattir is of a third brother of the
said E. George ; so Freswick Din is of the said E. George his
Grandfather and Telstame is a Cadet of him. Stricock is of
the said E. Greorge himself. The other sirnames are Moray of
Pennyland, descended of one of the sixteen Brothers of TuUi-
barden. Innes of Sandside is but late there. Innes of Thur-
sater elder ; Mouat of Swingie, the Caddels and Budges are
old, but of no Estates. The rest are not considerable.

Survey of the TOWN of ABERDEEN in its
situation &° done by M' Skene late Bailie
there & communicated by Bailie Walter
Robertson, consisting of VII 1 Chapters
from p. 88 to 104. See Philopoliticus
Aberd: 1685.

Chap. I. containing the situation of Aberdeen & its Longi- 9S.
tude & Latitude.

Chapter II. Concerning the description of Aberdeen.

Chapter III Concerning the Antiquity of Aberdeen.

Chap. IV. Concerning the fidelity and loyal duty which
the Citizens of Aberdeen have alwayes had to Kings their
Soveraigns.

Chap. V. Marks for the Road and Harbour of. Aberdeen.

Chap. VI. Concerning the Government of Aberdeen.

Chap. VII. A short account of some particulars that have
been done of late years.

88 ABERDEEN

Having given an Account of the Constitution & Grovem: of
Aberdeen in the former Chap : it may seem expedient to set
down some few things worthy of remark over and above the
ordinary affairs in Council, that have been done thir few years
lately past, for the due commendation of these Magisixates
yet living, and the encouragement of these that are to succeed
in the Government of this City. And for that end I will
begin with the latest ft so a little backward, as most obvious
to the memory of beholders. If this were, or carefully had
been set down, we might have had an excellent and perfect
account of all that was worthily done by our Predecessours.

Formerly I did observe the great burdens and debts this
town was lying under, when this present Provest was first
elected to this his Charge. For our Common Treasury is
mostly exhausted with stipendiaries and other incidencies:
and such have been our losses and givings out since the late
troubles first began, upon publick and particular accounts ; that
we were necessitate to take up the several sums of Money
which were mortified to our Bursers in schools and Colledges,
to the poor and to Hospitals Sc^ which extended to vast sums
as the Counts of our several Office-bearers do evidence. Yea
our Cess and Excise hath come so short of the total that is set
upon us, that at some years, all that was or could be collected
from the severall Brewers, came but about to the half of the
sum. Whereby our Toun'*s Treasurers were constrained to
make up the Excise out of their own private Estates, to pre-
vent Parties from coming to quarter upon the toun. Whereby
it came to pass within thir few years, that the Town was found
•9jh resting to one of our Treasurers at the Ballance of Compt
22000 lib«

Upon which account it was like there should have been no
way left to any person to be Magistrate or Treasurer if some
extraordinary Course had not been taken ; if we had not been
resting the vast & great sums we are still lying under, to our
own Mortifications 8c Hospitals, it had been thus with us
80 years ago.

This present Provest first saw a necessity to lay on great
taxations of more than ordinary sums, to help to pay a part
of such principal sums and Annualrents as were most pressing.

ABERDEEN 89

This bred great grumblings and protestations among the
Inhabitants ft much hearing before the Lords of the Session.
But to help this, and to take away that ground, he prosecutes
a project that had been long in agitation ever since the Eing^s
Restauration, and had cost very considerable sums in prosecut-
ing, as may be seen in former Compts from the Year 1660 to
that time, but all without success, the cause of which needs not
be mentioned*

But this Provest being much concerned ic burdened in his
mind to perceive that this Ruine was likely to fall under his
hand, by power and moyen, having got an Act of Council,
impowering him to do his uttermost; whereby to obtain any
signature for the passing of the seals for imposing an Excise
for freeing the Town of its burden, he went with all diligence
about it, till he brought it to a period, as it stands this day.
Which though it also have raised a grumbling amongst the
Brewers & others concerned, at first, yet it may be evident that
the Inhabitants in aftertimes, yea and all that have a due
regard to the standing of the publick weal, will be found to
^usknowledge, that he hath acquit himself as a worthy Magis-
trate and one that hath made conscience of his Oath at his
Election and doing so much to set Aberdeen free from such
pressing burdens.

It is a hopefull and promising beginning, that he and the
Council have purchased the lands of Shedockley in the freedom- 95,
lands and the lands of Gilchonstoun near the ports of the
Town by the money that is already come in, to be forthcoming
for some of the Mortifications to pay the rent of some sums
^so far.

In his time also the Town has recovered the Friviledge of
being Admiral-Deputes betwixt the Rivers of Dee & Ythan
inclusive. In his time there is a comely 8c strong stone & lime
Wind-Mill newly built at the south entry of the toun, which
is ft may be of eminent use to the Town.

It ^8 not to be omitted the Town hath set up at every entry
of the Town, seats of hewn stone for the accommodation of old
men and women going to horse, which is very usefuU, and a
comely thing.

In his time is a house and accommodations with a boat built

90 ABERDEEN

for a Ferryman at the mouth of the River Dee^ near bur-
Blockhouse whereby the Inhabitants are greatly eased in not
wanting or calling for a Boat from Torrie, as formerly they
behoved to do.

In his time, even in this year, the Causey. of the most
beautifull street in the Town, called the Castle gate, which is
long & broad as any Mercat place in the Eingdome, which was
so hollow that the dubs and rains stood in pools, not being
repaired, when the rest of the streets were of new causeyed
about 50 years ago. It is now raised, and though at H con-
siderable expense, is causeying of new.

These things I do not ascribe allenarly to the Provest but
to the whole Magistrates, who may equally be instrumental ia
motioning and promoting good and commendable things with
the allowance of the Council.

In Provest Petrie''s time, the Town^s house, wherein the
high and low Council houses, and the Head Court house were-
commendably repaired by him, enlarged and rendered far more
spacious than ever before.

In his time, the Scafin*Feasts were converted into money
96. for the use of the Magistrates, that when need requires they
meet anent the affairs of the Town, they may call for any
refreshment upon that account without any kind of grudge
from the Inhabitants, they being free to make use of that
money, to any publick use they please.

In Provest Jeffreys time, the shore was greatly lengthened
ft enlarged as it now stands.

In his time, the ordering of the Visitation of the schools
was set up, the ancient Laws or Leges Scholce revised, altered
and reprinted, and a great Paperbook for inserting the Visi-
tations given in to be kept by the Master, that they that
gained the praemium, whether by making a theam, .interpre-
tation of Latine Authors, analising or making of Verse, ftc.
may be insert with the scholar^s own hand the names of the
Visitors, and the day ft; date being first set down.

In George CuUen his time, John being eldest Bailie, the
Provest dying, in his time, the Justice of Peace Court was set
up by the Bailies with Constables : those out of every Quarter
of the Town for punishing and fining Whoremongers and such.

ABERDEEN 91

as were Drunkards, swearers, and Sabbath breakers. And
this was so diligently prosecuted by the Magistrates, and by
sending the Constable with the Town Sergeants or Officers
through the Town every weekly Market day, that before six
moneths ended which closed that year, for the next Election
approached; one would not have heard the Meanest Oath
in the streets on a Mercat day, though there would have
been several thousands of Countrey & Towns people on the
Streets.
Chap. VIII. Concerning the State of Aberdeen.

Epigrams on the Town of Aberdeen, by Dr. Arthur
Johnston Physician in ordinary to K. Charles the
first Englished by Mr. John Barclay Minister
of Cruden. Elogies of other Burrows of Scotland 57..
translated out of Dr. Arthur Johnston's- Latine
Epigrams into English, by the foresaid Mr. John
Barclay, p. 108 to 117. Relation of the strange
cure of mad people at the wel of Struthhill, ex-
tracted out of a Letter written by Mr. Forsyth
Minister at Sterling to Mr. Drummond Minister
at Muthill.

I received a Letter from you to be communicat to the
Minister at Airth anent one Agnes Symson, who was brought
to your Well at Struthill. I obeyed your desire In the face
of the Presbytery. The Minister hath called the men, who
conveyed that woman, before his Session, and upon Weddens-
day last, they appeared befoure our Presbytery. All of them,,
being four, two of them named James Mitchels, and two John
Sympsons, friends of the Woman did freely confess, that they
had taken that woman to the Well, that they had stayed two
nights at an house hard by the Well, that the first night they
did bind her twice to a stone at the Well, but she came into
the house to them being loosed without their help. The
second night they bound her over again to that same stone, &
she returned loosed. And they declare also, that she was
very mad, before they took her to the Well & since that time,
she is working & sober in her wits. The Presbytery hath
required me to give you an account of their diligence & to

92 EXTRACTS FROM ROMAN AUTHORS

desire, what further ye require to be done. And they do
entreat you to let them know, what course the church hath
used to take in the like case, and what censure wass inflicted
upon such Delinquents. Stirling March 16, 1668.

CITATIONS concerning the SCOTS and
SCOTLAND out of Roman Authoks.

My Lord Newbaith sent me in a letter these Extracts.

Pompon. Laetus. Constantino obvenere Gallise, Hispanie,
et Alpes Cotise, Britannise, Orcades, Hybemia, Thule.

Sextus Aurelius Victor. Septimius Severus in Britannia
vallum per triginta duo passuum millia, a mari ad mare
deduxit.
^. Pompon. Laetus. Imperante Fl. Val. Valentiniano Aug.
Picti et Scoti Germanise gentes Britanniam invadunt. illi
Calidonios et Vecturiones occupant, ii depopulantur Insulam.

Idem. Sub Theodosio rursus Scotorum et Pictorum copiae
e Britannia ab legionibus nostris pelluntur, et in Hispania res
pro voto successerunt.

Idem. Qui in Brittania erant, scilicet Romani Romanorumc^
exercitus sub Valentiniano Theodosii filio, cum Scotorum
et Pictorum rapinas ferre non possent, Anglorum Regem
Vortigomarum ad opem ferendam poposcerunt, secus evenit.
Angli insulam suae ditionis fecere. Sunt etiam ii Saxonum
Germanorum populi feroces atque pugnaces qui ad hue cum
Scotis interjectis limitibus imperant.

Joh: Baptist Egnatius. Septimus Severus Britannos tumultu-
antes compescuit Vallo per SSOOO passuum a mari ad mare
deducto.

Idem. Hoc Principe Scil. Valentiniano tertio Theodosii
Hlio, Francis Gallias, Anglis et Scotis Britanniam occupantibus,
Vandalis Africam et ipsam Urbem populantibus Hunnis
Europam vexantibus et Italiam, collapsum funditus est.

GALLOWAY— COBSTORPHINE—LEITH 98

An Account anent GALLOWAY from M'
EuART Provost of Kircudbright.

Galloway is devided into two Jurisdictions, the Shire and
the Stewartry. The Stewartry containeth most of it that
lyeth to the East, which is delineate in these M apps of the
Stewartry of Kircudbright and of that which is contained
betwixt the water of Dee and Cree. Tlie Sherifdome that
which lyeth to the West, named the Sherifdome of Wigton to
be seen in the Mapp so designed.

CURIOSITIES of NATURE sent to me by
Lady Mary Gordon.

Ane saltsalt of Marble whyte which was made of a stone
found in Stratbbogy in a Quarry belonging to the Laird of
Craige Grordon«

Some Christalls, whereof one Jeit Black, others very pellucid
whyte and Greyish found at Cragougovan in StrathSpey^
belonging to the Laird of Grant.

The shell of the Nautilus said to have been gotten in
Cathness,

Relation anent CORSTORPHIN by the
Lord Newbaithe.

Corstorphin Church is a Collegiate Churche and the Great
Bernard Stuart that was Viceroy of Naples, and Grovemour of
Milan lyeth there he retired there before his death. Of him
Comines saith Le Roy fiU batti encoreque Monsieur de Aulngny
yfai.

Captain Collins his OBSERVATION of the
HIGHWATER at LEITH.

In Leith it is High Water at the New & Full Moon at %\
houres, the Spring tyde riseth 16 foot, and Neap 8 foot
Sometimes more or less as the winds blow.

94 CURIOSITIES IN THE NORTH

NATURAL CURIOSITIES in the NORTH.

Doctor Balfour hath a peece of serpentine stone found in
the Laird of Lesly his bounds in the Shyre of Aberdene.

In the same Shyre are found Eilovyne near to the Marquis
of Huntly his house & the lignum fossile and a sort of Falk and
a green Earth Falkish.

The Loch of Charreon. Mackenzie of Apilcrosse upon the
one syde of it and Gairloch upon the other, the Loch of
Carron, it is in some places a myle broad.

Teesintons breadth benorth it broader and longer.

No access to Hirta but at one place, wher the boat is heased
up, loading and all by the Inhabitants there be some 60
families there.

North Wist is divided from South Wist by a space, which
when the sea is fully out, is past upon horse and on foot.

The Gare is said to be a fowle of the bigness of a Corby
with a great Whyte Spoat upon the breast of it.
100, There is in the Merse near Lamyngton his house, ane
Vault which goeth far, as they say there, beneath ground to
Berwick.

Wist the northsyde belongs to Makdonald and the south
to Muydarte.

In Skia Mackdonald and Maclane ^ and Mackinan have the
greatest interest.

M' William Dunlap give ane account of ane Well near
New yeard upon the Westsyde of Paisely upon the high way,
there is ane Well which ebbeth and floweth with the sea,
although upon a higher ground then the Water a Carte, which
is the next adjacent place that floweth. it is within ane quarter
of mile of Pacely.

Tin the year 1600 Our Computation of the Year began at
the 25*»» of March.

^ * MacLeod* [interlined].

TWEDDALE— ANGUS 95

Copy of a (CHARTER granted to Sir W"^
Inglish of the Barony of Maner in Twed-
dale by King Robert the 8^ the 6*^ year
of his Reign dated at Strivelin the 2^ of
October fra the transumpt appointed by
the Lords of Session the Tenor is.

Robertus Dei gratia Rex Scoiorum. Omnibus probis homi-
nibus totius terrae suae Clericis et Laicis. Sciatis nos dedisse
•concessisse et hac praesenti charta nostra confirmasse Dilecto
•consanguineo nostro Wilielmo Inglis militi in remunerationem
facti sui notabilis viz. interfectionis Thomae de Struthyr
AngHci militis, quern super Marchiis in duello in actione
infamise interfecii. Totam et integram Baroniam de Menar
•cnm pertinentiis infra Vicecomitatum de Feblis &^ Testibus
Venerabilibus in Christo patribus Waltero et Matthseo Sancti
Andreae et Glascuensis Ecdesiarum Episcopis Robei-to Comite
■de ryfe et Menteith fratre nostro carissimo. Archibaldo
Comite de Duglass. Domino Gallovidiae, Magistro Duncano
Petit Archidiacono Glascuensi Cancellario nostro Jacobo de
Duglass Domino de Dalkeith et Thoma de Erskin consanguineis
nostris dilectis militibus apud Strevilyn 2^*^ Octobris, anno
regni nostri 6*°.

King Malcome his MONUMENT in Angus.

The Lord Cars showed me that there is in Angus ane High 102.
Stone set up on end, in the parish of Glams, which they take
to be a monument for K. Malcome who was murdered near to
that place.

There is another stone thought to be the monument of
Sanct Alured.

NOTES of GALLOWAY.

Galloway will be in lenth fra Port Patrick to Drumfris
some threescore of mile.

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Principall Towns there Wigton and Kircudbright; Port
Patrick & New and Old Galloway are but small Towns.

The Nobility there are the Earle of Galloway of the name
of Stuart the Vicount of Eenmure, Gordon, and the Lord
Kircudbright, MacClellane.

The Gentry be numerous.

The heritable Sherif, of the name of Agnew.

Considerablest Grentry. — Dalrymple of Stair* Dumbar of
Baldoon Muckroom. Maxwell of — MHrhie of

Bamagie.

Forest of Ettrick near 14 myles in length and as much in
breadth, in some places 15. there be there the Duke of
Bucklugh in the parish of Yara Sir William Scot hath
Kirwop So Achwood Woods and much rent. Thirlstane hath
lands there, there is a Sherifdome and Lordship, their kirks,
Selkirk. Yara Kirk, Etrick Kirk. Waters, Yara, Twed sc
Ettrick. most for pasture.

In a Charter granted by Duncan Mackduff Earle of Fyfe to
Lindsay of Mount, Matheu Sibbald is witness, it was in the
tyme of David Brus. M' Hary Mackum promiseth to send
over the principall charter, there is mention of that Mathew
in many other writts. The Sibbalds of Balgony Heretably
Sherif for a long tract of years.

The Description of the PROVINCE of
SOUTHERLAND. With the Commo-
dities thereof.

The Countrey or Province of Southerland doth abound in
corns, grass, woods, fruits, bestiall, all kinds of wild fowL Deer
Wt. and Roe ; all sorts of fishes, especially salmon, and all other
Commodities, which are usual in this kingdom of Scotland, or
necessary for man. Our Writers have hitherto erred in
describing the situation of Southerland. It hath Catteynes
toward the East & Northeast; It hath the great Ocean
toward the North, Northwest, & West Northwest, seing the
countreys of Strathnaver Edderachiles and Durines are now

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by the Kings Patent under his great seal annexed and adjoyned
to that Province as a portion thereof. It hath the Countrey
of Assint toward the West ; It hath Ross toward the South
ft South west; and hath the German sea toward the South
Southeast and east.

Southerland is separated and divided from Cattey-ness by
the brook or Stripe called Aldituver and by the Hill called
Ord or Mond With a range of other Hills which do stretch
from the South sea to the north Ocean. These Hills beginning
at the Ord, do extend themselves from thence to Drumhalles-
dell, where Feahallesdell divideth Sutherland & Strathnaver
from Cattey-ness. & then these Hills do stretch from Feahall-
esdell unto the North sea. Southerland is separate from
Assint by Gormloch, Finloch and Loch M arkell toward Toin-
ne Toyne by the Glaswin lying Northeast from the Bin more in
Assint, by the Eynagh of Binmore in Assint, inclyning to
Glen Muck and by StrathNordell falling into Eean Loch-Eilsh
the mother of the River of Oikell. Southerland is divided by
the Province of Ross, by the River Port ne Couter or Tayn by
the Water of Oikell and by the height of Glenmuck so that
Casley Kean Loch, and all the lands lying upon that river of
Casley even unto Aldi-ne-Geale-Gigh. Sc the Layd-More in
Assint, and whatsoever else that payeth tithes to the Parish
of Creigh, appertaineth all to the Province of Southerland.
Southerland is separate from Strathnaver and Edderachilis by
a range of hills running along from the East to the West to
wit by the hills of Halledell, by the Millanninleay, by the lOS.
Kean Loch Strathie, by the Reawagen, by the Loine-keill, by
the Loyn Tarsin, by the Dow-Loyn, by Leayd Shrom ne
Gerramgh, equally divided by Correy, Neasaim, by Binchearoll,
by Binchie, by Corri-Chrutter, by Aldi-Nalbanagh, by Knokan-
Challegb, by Aldmillan-Choile, by Droit-Bin-Loyd, and by
the height of Bin-Loyd, as you descend into the West sea.
Sutherland is separated from Duriness by the Diri More, & by
the Edderachilis. Sutherland is divided from Edderachilis by
Knokan-Challegh and the Diri Meanigh even to the height of
Bin Loyd, as said is.

The Province of Southerland is called in old Scotish or
Irish language Cattey and the Inhabitants Cattigh from the

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Usipian and Cattean Morays, who did inhabite that Coiin-
trej in the Beign of Corbred Gald King of Scotland, and
thereafter it was called Sutherland. Ptolomsus Alexandrinus
calleth the people of Cattey Cants. This countrey of Cattey
did sometimes contain all the R^on lying between the Port-
ne-Couter, and Dungsbie, being divided almost in the midst
by a mountain called Ord, and a range of other hills running
from the south sea to the North Ocean : for Assint was in
former times a part of Sutherland and of the Barony of Skelbo,
as appears by an Infeftment given of the same to the Lfairdsof
Einnairdy, who had sometimes the lands of Skelbo. And the
countrey which is now called Cattey-ness was first so named as
the Ness or Promontory of Cattey lying be east the mountain
Ord. Rogerius de Hoveden an ancient Writer calleth it
Catteyness. So doth Adam and Andrew Bishops of Cattey-
ness call it. Hector Boetius in his History deriveth Catteynes,
though not rightly, from the word Catus (the proper name of
a roan,) and the word Ness. Doubtless the ambiguity of the
words Cattey and Catteyness together with the ignorance of
the Irish language hath made Boetius and divers others to err
in the denomination of these Countries.
W4. The Bishoprick of Catteynes without doubt had first the
denomination from Cattey, because this Diocie doth not only
contain the countrey of Catteynes but also Southerland,
Strathnaver, and Assint, all which in former times was within
Cattey : So that the Bishoprick took the denomination rather
from Cattey, which was the whole, than from Catteynes, which
was but a part and Promontory thereof. And further the
Cathedral Church of the Diocie, together with the Bishops
Seat and the residence of the Chanons is and hath ever been
since the first institution, not in Catteynes but in the town of
Dornoch in Southerland. So from the progres of time, the
countrey of Cattey losing the ancient name, and taking the
name of Southerland, the name of the Bishoprick notwith-
standing still remained, and instead of Cattey it is called
Catteynes as drawing nearer to the old name and etymology
than Southerland did.

Southerland is at this day divided into ten Parishes.
Dornoch Creigh I-Airg, Durines, Rogart, Gulmaly, Clyne,

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Loth, Eildonan & Far, which last is in Strathnaver. There
are diverse Chappels in Southerland. In easter Garty, there
is a Chappel which was built by Magdalene Bailie Countes of
Southerland. There is a Chappel in Maridell dedicate to
St. Ninian, where in old times there was a Sanctuary. In
Wester Helmisdell, there is a Chappel called St. Johns
Chapel. There is a chappel also at Kinnald. At Golspie
there is a Chappel dedicate to St. Andrew. There is like-
wise a Chappel at Kilcolmkill in Strathbroray dedicate to
St. Colomb. Besides these there are divers others in several
places of the Countrey.

There are three principal Forrests in Southerland besides
Scottarie, which lyeth in Strathbroray, Tivarie which is in
Strathvely, Glean Shni which lyeth upon the river of Shni,
Leagland which lyeth in Strathbroray, Shletadell which is in
the Parish of Loth, and diverse other such particular Chases and
hunting places of wood and Deer, to wit the Forrest of Diri-
Chat which is of the Parish of Kildonan wherein are contained
the two hills of Binormin. the forrest of Diri Meanigh which
is within the Parish of Lairg wherein is contained Binhie and
the great hill Tayn Bambd. All these forrests and Chases are lOB.
very profitable for feeding of bestial and delectable for hunt-
ing. They are full of red Deer and Roes, Wolfs, Foxes, wild
Cats, Brocks, Squirrels, Whitrets, Weasels, Otters, Martricks,
Hares and Foulmarts. In these Forrests and in all this Pro-
vince there is great store of Partridges, Plovers, Capercalzeys,
Blackwaks, M oorfowls. Heath hens. Swans, Bittours, Turtle
doves. Herons, Doves, Stares or Stirlings, Lair igigh or Knag,
(which is a fowl like unto a Parroquet or Parret, which makes
place for her nest with her beek in the Oak tree,) Duke,
Drake, Widgeon, Teal, Wild goose, Ringoose, Routs, Whaps,
Shot Whaps, Woodcocks, Larks, Sparrows, Snypes, Blackbirds
or Ossils, Mavises, Thrushes and all other kinds of wild foul and
birds which are to be had in any part of this kingdom. There
is not one Strype in all these forrests that wants trout & other
sorts of fishes. The half of the Diri More, which lyeth
toward the North and Northwest, doth appertain of late to
Macky by the £. of Southerland his Gift and Disposition. In
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are bred therein or haunt within the bounds of that hill have
forked tails three inches long whereby they are easily known
and discerned from all other Deer. In Duriness West 8c north-
west from the Diri M ore, there is an excellent & delectable
place for hunting called the Fame, where they hunt the red
Deer in abundance and sometimes they drive them into the
Ocean Sea at the Fharohead, where they take them in Boats
as they list. There is another part in Southerland in the
Parish of Loth called Shietadell, where there are red Deer, a
pleasant place for hunting with Greyhounds. Here also some-
times they drive the Deer into the South sea, & so do kill them«
Besides the Rivers of Fort-ne-Couter & Oikdl which do
divide Ross from Southerland, and besides the Rivers of
Strathnaver, Durines & Edderachilis, there are in Souther-
land five principall Rivers, to wit, Unes, Broray, Holmisdell
or UUy and Casley all abounding in salmon and other fishes.
. The first three of these Rivers are good Harbours for the ships
that do traffique in that countrey to transport from thence
their Corns, salt, Coal, Salmon, Beef, Hides, Wool, Linen,
Tallow, Butter, Cheese, Flaids and other Commodities. In
the river of Shin there is a great Lin and Overfall of water
where there is good fishing of salmon, which is the biggest
& largest salmon in the Kingdom. Xhis River of Shin doth
never freeze although the Loch or Lake from which it proceeds
doth freeze, upon the north side of the River Fort-ne Couter,
Between the Barony of Skibo and Fulrossie there is a Bay
or Inlet of Water, where there is a good Harbour called
Folchorrie. There is upon these Rivers and upon the coast
of Southerland a great quantity of Fealocks, Selchs or Seals,
and sometimes Whales of great bigness* With all sorts of
shell-fish and diverse kinds of seafoul. The Valleys, which do
ly upon the banks of these Rivers and Inlets of Waters, as
tiiey do ascend from the sea to the mountains, are called
Strathes, and are well manured & inhabited, replenished
with woods, grass, corns, cattell and Deer, both pleasant and
profitable, such as Strath Ully, which is twenty miles in
length, and marches with Diri Chat. Stratheleit, which is
fourteen miles in length from the mouth of the River Unes
unto the hills. Strath Terry, Strath ne Saily, Strath Kinne-

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dell. Strath Telleny, Strath Dalenarwe, Strath Tolly, Strath
Daill ne Mejn, Strath ne Finaj, &;c. In the height of Strath
Ully are the two Hills called Bingrimes, and the Hill called
Binwaddie.

There is a part of Southerland within the parish of Creigh
called Chilis, or Ferrin-Coskarie, which is eighteen miles in
length, lying upon the Northside of the Rivers of Port ne
Couter, and Oikell, where there are Hills of Marble. There
is another part of Southerland called Breachat, that is the
height of Cattey or Southerland, full of corns, fresh water
fishes, grass, cattell, woods, deer and wild fowl, very pleasant
and exceeding profitable for feeding of bestial, it is con-
tained within the parish of Lairg. Breachat is twenty miles
in length and is divided into two parts by the River Shin,
which proceeds from Loch Shin, and running from the north
to the south entereth into the River of Portne Couter. That
part of Breachat, which lyes East and northeast from Loch m.
Shin, joyns with the Diri-More at Phuarran pooledai. The
western part of Breachat is called the Barony of Gruids.
wherein is contained the Forrest of Diri Meanigh with Corry-
Keau Loch, Steill-Chorri, Garwelayd, and Craigskanlay,
The Deer of this forrest and also of all the rest of the forrests
and Chases in Southerland are fatter and bigger than any
other Deer in Scotland.

There is a place in Southerland beside Spanizidell, where
the Inhabitants do take a Fish called sand-eels after this
manner. At high streams and springs in summer, when the
sea is at low Ebb, there doth appear in the Firth of Portne
Couter, some banks or Beds of sand. At these times the
common sort of the Inhabitants do conveen on horseback to
the number of six or seven hundred people, and so do swim
towards these sands: and when they do arrive upon these
Beds of sand, incontinent they run their horses at full speed,
striving who can first arrive at the fishing place, where they
do endeavour with all diligence to take these sand-eels not
unlike unto spratts, whereof they take such abundance during
some few days, that it sufiiceth them for provision of that
kind of fish during the Lent and the most part of the year
following. If any of them do haj^en to fall in their course.

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as they do run their horses the rest do take no notice thereof
to rescue but suffer them to ly there among the horse-feet,
and run on their intended course. These sand-eels are taken
also at Dornoch and at the Ferry of Unes, and in diverse
parts of the Countrey, but not after the same fiEishion.

There are in Southerland diverse Loch or Lakes, above
threescore in number, full of good fishes, thorow the Forrests
and Mountains, one whereof 'to wit Loch Shin, is fourteen
miles in length. In sundry of these Lakes there are Islands
with Habitations as in Loch Shin, Loch Broray, Loch Migdell,
Loch Buy, Loch Dolay and others. There are five Lakes
lying together in the height of the Parish of Lairg called the
Finlochs. In Diri Chat and in the height of Strath UUy,
there are twenty four Lochs dispersed through the mountains,
from whence the River of UUy descends. In Loch Broray
there is an Island, where the E. of Southerland hath a de-
lectable Habitation and pleasant for hunting red Deer and
i08. Roes in the woods on both the sides of the Lake. This Island is
distant three or four miles from the Burgh of Broray. There
are four Islands in Lochshin; to wit Elian Minrie, Elian
Donald, Elian Feyad and Clach-Ellan ; all pleasant dwellings
in summer. To these Islands there do resort good store of
wild geese, swans and red deer.

In the Lakes and Rivers of Southerland and chiefly in
Shin, there are excellent good Pearles, some whereof have
been sent unto the Eing^s Majesty into England, and were
accounted of great value. In Southerland there are silver
mines, which have been hitherto neglected. There was an
Essay of these Mines carried to London the year of God 16S0
by the deceased Sir Tho. Meinzies Provest of Aberdeen, and
being tryed in England, they were found to be very rich.
But he concealing in what part of Southerland the mine was
found, and dying upon the way at that time in his return
from London towards Scotland, the State is hitherto deprived
of the benefit of these mines, untill it shall please God in his
appointed time to discover the same. There are Hills of
Marble in diverse parts of this Province. There is good sea
coal some half mile bewest the mouth of the River of Broray
wherewith I have seen fine salt made, which served Souther-

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land with the adjacent Provinces, and was sometimes also
transported into England and other langdoms. There is a
fine and excellent Quarry of free stone, a little by West that
Coalheuch beside Ald-Sputy, which is carried from thence
unto other parts of the Kingdom. Half mile from Dunrobin
there is a fine Quarry of Limestone at Golspie More. In
diverse parts of this Countrey, there is abundance of Iron-
ure, wherewith the Inhabitants make good Iron. There is a
Quarry of Slate hard by the town of Dornoch. So there is
also in the Parish of Kilmely and in Strath Ully.

The principal town in Southerland is Dornoch, where there
is a fair Castle appertaining to the E. of Southerland. This
Town was lately erected in a Burgh Royal by the credit and
means of Sir Robert Gordon Tutor of Southerland. It is
situate between the rivers of Portne Couter and Unes : and is
the Chief Burgh and Seat of the Sheriffs of Southerland, where 109.
all their Homings and Inhibitions are registred, and all Denun-
ciations made, and Proclamations read. About this Town,
along the sea coast, there are the fairest and largest Links
or green fields of any part of Scotland, fit for Archery, gofiing,
riding and all other exercise. They do surpass the fields of
Montrose or St. Andrews. In Dornoch there was a Church
called St. Bar his Church, which was built by St. Bar Bishop
of Catteyness and was in our days demolished. In Dornoch
is the Cathedral Church and the Bishops Seat of the Diocie of
Catteynes, together with the residence of the Chanons. This
Church was built by St. Gilbert in honour of our Lady, and
is commonly called St. Gilbert his Church. All the Glass that
served this church when it was built, was made by St. Gilbert
his appointment beside Sidderay, two miles by west Dornoch.
This Church was burnt & thrown down by John Sinclair
Master of Catteynes, and Y-Macky of Far the year of God
1570. and it hath been of late reedified by Sir Robert Gordon
Tutor of Southerland, which work was enterprised and begun
by John Elarle of Southerland last deceased a little before his
death. In this church, the Earles of Southerland have had for
the most part their Burial places unto this day, in the South
Isle called Our Ladies Isle.

In the toun of Dornoch there are four Fairs kept yearly :

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St Gilbert his Fair, St Bar his Fair, St Margarits Fair, and
St Bernards Fair, unto the which there resorteth a great con-
fluence of people to trafiique from all the parts of the I[ing-
dom. St Gilbert his Fair is kept yearly the first day of April.
St Margarits Fair is kept yearly the 90^ day of July ; St Ber-
nard his Fair is kept yearly the SO^ day of August ; and St
Bar his Fair was kept in former times the 25^ day of Sep-
tember, but Alexander £. of Southerland procured it to be
transferred and removed from the S5 day of September to the
10*^ day of October. Every one of these Fairs continues for
the space of three days. There is also a great Fair kept yearly
110, at Golspi Kirktown beside Dunrobin the last day of November
called St Andrew his Fair. Ane other Fair is kept in Creigh,
called St Teavnecks Fair ; one is kept at Rogart called St Callen
his Fair ; one at Lairg called St M inrie his Fair, one at Clyne
called St Aloyne his Fair ; one at Kilmaly called St Garden his
Fair ; one at Loth called also St Garden his Fair ; one at Kil-
donnand called St Donnand his Fair; and four appointed to
be at Broray, whereof one is called our Ladies Fair.

A little by east the town of Dornoch, there is a Monument,
in form and structure like a Gross called Grash Worwaire that
is, the Thane or Earle his Gross. There is another beside
Enbo, about a mile from Dornoch, called Rie Gross, that is
the Kings Gross, in the which place one of the Kings or Gom-
manders of Denmark was slain and buried. Nine miles by east
Dornoch lyeth the Burgh of Broray at the entry of the river
of Broray, which was erected into a Burgh by the procurement
of John E. of Southerland last deceased. Upon that River
there is a Bridge consisting of one fair arch which was of late
reedified & repaired by Sir Robert Gordon Tutor of Souther-
land. The Earle of Southerland's Arms were carved in stone
and placed upon the northside thereof.

There is not a Rat in Southerland ; and if they do come
thither in ships from other parts which often happeneth, they
die presently, how soon they do swell of the air of that
Countrey. And which is strange, there is a great store and
abundance of them in Gatteyness the very next adjacent Pro-
vince divided only by a little strype or brook from Souther-
land. There are many wild Catts in Southerland, which the

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Inhabitants do hunt among the Rocks and Mountains as they
do the foxes, the Wolfs and the Brocks. Diverse kinds of
Hawks do breed in Southerland; such as Falcons, Merlins,
Ger£Eilcons, Sparhawks Sc^, In all the Province of Southerland
there is not a Town, Village or Mannour without the com-
modity either of the Sea or of a River or a Lake or a Brook of iii.
fresh water running hard by it, whereby all the Inhabitants
generally have fish and fresh water trouts at all times and
seasons. There is a Hill in Southerland called Ord very high
and of dificile passage, by the which men do travel into Cattey-
nes. The Range of Hills running from the South sea to the
North doth divide Southerland from Catteynes. The corns and
grain of Southerland are excellent; and chiefly the Barly is
so good that it giveth greater prices in other parts of the
kingdom than the barley of Orkney, Catteynes, Murray or
any of the rest of the Provinces of the north, excepting Ross,
the barley whereof is almost of the like goodnes with that of
Southerland.

The Castles and Pyles of Southerland are Dornoch, Dun-
robin the Earle of Southerlands special residence, a house well
seated upon a Mote hard by the sea with fair Orchards, where
there be pleasant Grardens planted with all kinds of fruits,
herbs and flowers used in this kingdom and abundance of good
saffix>n, Tobaco, and Rosemary. The fruit here is excellent
and chiefly the Pears and Cherries. There is in Dunrobin, one
of the Deepest Draw wells ; all of Aisler work from the ground
to the top, called St John's Well, which is within the Castle
in the midst of the Court. One mile from the Castle, there is
a fair Coneygar three miles in lenth along the sea-coast, very
well stored and full of Coneys. The Castles & Pyles of
Skelbo, Pronsie, Skibo, where there is a fair Orchard in the
which there be excellent Cherries, Pulrossie, Einwershin, Golspi
Tower, Golspi Eirktown, Helmsdell, which was reedified the
year of God 1616 by Sir Alex"^ Gordon of Navidell Brother to
John E. of Southerland last deceased, Torrish built also by
the said Sir Alex"^ Gordon the year of God 1621, Cracok,
Cuttle, Clyn, Enbo, Castle-Negoir, Durmes, Doun-Creigh,
Abirscors, Ospidale, Clentredwale, Bom & Toung. These two iii^
last are in Strath Naver. Doun-Creigh was built with a

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strange kind of Morter by one Paul Macktyre. This I do
take to be a kind of Ure. However this is most sure, that
there hath not been seen an harder kind of Morter.

Southcrland is about 55 miles in length from the West to
the East ; to wit from Aldene-Gealgigh, Kean Loch-Eilsh, &
the West Sea at Glencule unto the marches of Catteynes, he
east the Ord. And in breadth it is about S8 miles from the
south sea unto the North Ocean, including herein Strathnaver
which in some parts is 11 miles in breadth. Most part of the
Rivers in Southerland do descend from the North Mountains
to the south sea ; and the rivers of Strath Naver do descend
from the south to the north ocean, which is occasioned by the
range of Hills running from the east to the west, that divide
Southerland from Strathnaver.

The Parish of Eildonnand, which doth march with Catteynes
extends itself in length twenty three miles from the south
toward the North, and in breadth seven miles, some times less,
from the East to the West. Next unto Kildonnand, lyeth the
Parish of Loth extending itself in length 8 miles frt>m the east
to the West, and in breadtli four miles from the south sea to
the north. With Loth the parish of Clyn doth m€ux;h, extend-
ing itself in length eighteen miles from the south sea unto the
north Mountains and in breadth eight miles sometimess less,
from the east to the west. Next Clyn lyeth the Parish of Kil-
maly, extending itself eight miles in length from the east to
the west and in breadth* seven miles, sometimes less, from the
south sea toward the north. The Parish Kirk is now at Grolspi
and was translated from Eilmaly thither. The next Parish to
Kilmaly is Rogart, extending itself in length sixteen miles
lis. from the south west toward the North and North East, and
in breadth six miles sometimes less, from the southeast to the
northwest. With Rogart marcheth the Parish of Lairg, ex-
tending itself in length 24 miles from the south toward the
north, and in breadth 19 miles, sometimes less, from the East
toward the West, not comprehending herein Edderachilis.
The Parish of Creigh extends itself in length 26 miles from
the East to the West, along the northside of Port-ne Couter,
. and Oikell and in breadth six miles, sometimes less, from the
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itself in a Point or Ness between the Rivers of Port ne Couter,
and Unes. It is ten miles in length from the south toward
the Norths and in breadth five miles from the east toward the
west and Northwest. All these Parish Churches are now of
late repaired in that Countrey.

Edderachilis is a tract of land, which lyes upon the North-
west coast of Scotland full of wilderness mountains and Rocks.
It is marched at the East and South with Knokean Challegh
and some other parts of the E. of Southerlands property in the
Diri-More. It hath the sea at the West and Northwest. It
hath Assint and a part of Diri Meanigh at the South, and it
hath Durines at the North. It extends in length sixteen
miles from the east to the west and in breadth nine miles,
sometimes less, from the south to the North. Although
Edderachilis doth appertain at this day to M acky, yet it was
never a part of Strathnaver, but it was a portion of the
Barony of Skelbo in Southerland and hath been a part of the
Parish of Lairg. Though, since it went from the Lairds of .
Skelbo, it hath payed no Tythes to the Thesaurer of Cat-
teynes unto whom the tythes of the whole Parish of Lairg do
properly appertain. Neither doth it at this day appertain to
any other Parish, but that of late the Bishop hath given the
Tythes to the Possessor, neither is there any other Parish
Chiuch within itself to this day. Macky holds Edderachilis
of the E. of Southerland as his Lord and Superior, in the 114.
same manner as he doth hold the lands of Strathnaver. In
Edderachilis there is a River called Laxford, in the which
there is taken good store of salmon fish. There is an Island
called Ellan-handey, which lyes in the West sea, upon the
coast of Edderachilis, and appertains to it, or rather belongs
to Durines.

Durines is a portion of land very pleasant and profitable
lying upon the Northwest point of Scotland, which although
it be in Macky his possession, given him by the E. of Souther-
land as his Fee for his good service to that House, yet it is
not a portion of Strathnaver, neither hath Macky as yet the
heritable Right thereof, but only as a Possession for his service
during the Earle of Southerlands pleasure. Durines is the
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by the Bishops of that Diocie to the E. E. of Southerland.
Among the Bishop of Catteynes his Evidents and Writs,
there is an Agreement and Arbitral Decreet past long ago
between the E. of Southerland and the Bishop of Catteynes,
whereby the Marches of Dunnes and of the E. of Souther-
lands Property are by way of perambulation settled and
agreed upon : and thereby it appeareth clearly, that in those
days Southerland and Durines did march together. This was
many years before the disposition of Durines made by the
Bishops to the E. of Southerland. Durines is eighteen miles
in length from the South toward the North, and twelve miles
in breadth from the Mountains to the West and North West
Ocean. It hath Edderachilis at the South & South West;
it marches with Strathnaver, at the North and Northeast;
it hath the Diri More at the East and Southeast ; and hath
the Ocean sea at the West and N. West. In it there is a
great River called the River of Durines, where there is good
116. store of salmon fish taken. It is thought that in Durines
there are Mines of Gold. The Barley in Durines is very
good, and the Increase thereof so great, that it is almost
incredible. But this Increase doth not happen every year,
nor in every part of that Land. The days are of great length
in Durines in summer & there is no dark night at all ; the
days in Winter be very short & the night exceeding long. I
do verily think that there is no land directly North from the
point of the Ness of Durines called Ardurines ; at least there
is none found out as yet. The Parish Church of Durines is at
Baill ne Kill, where also the Castle of Durines was. I have
spoken already of a place in Durines called the Parwe or
Pharohead, which is an exceeding delectable place for hunting
of red Deer.

Now let us speak something of Strathnaver seeing the E. of
Southerland is Lord and Superior thereof, and seing it is a
portion of the Earldom of Southerland. Strathnaver is a
Countrey full of Bestial and Cattel, fitter for Pasturage and
Store than for corns, by reason there is little manured land
there. It is and hath been these many years, possessed by
Macky Chief of the Clan Wick-worgin. The principal Com-
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salmon, whereof they have great store, but also they have
such abundance of all other kinds of fishes in the Ocean, that
they apprehend great numbers of all sorts at their very doors,
yea in the winter season among the Rocks without much
trouble. They take and apprehend every day so much fish only
as will suffice them for the time, and do care for no greater
provision or store. If the Inhabitants were industrious, they
might gain much by these fishes. But the people of that
Countrey are so far naturally given to idleness that they can-
not apply themselves to labour which they esteem a disparage-
ment and derogation to their Gentility. There is no doubt, lis.
but that Countrey might be much bettered by laborious and
painfull Inhabitants. There are in Strathnaver divers Pro-
montories stretching themselves forth into the North Ocean ;
to wit Fyrebole, Hope Strathie, &®. There are diverse Rivers
in Strathnaver, wherein they do take good store of salmon, to
wit Hope, Torresdell, Mawer or Far, Strathie & HoUedell. In
Strathnaver there are two Castles Borwe and Toung. Macky
his special Residence is at Toung one mile from the place
where the Castle doth stand. Macky his Burial place is at
the Chappel of Eirkboll, which is one mile distant from
Toung, and is lately repaired. The Countrey of Strathnaver
is full of red Deer and Roes, pleasant for hunting in the
summer season. It is fiill of great mountains and Wilderness,
yet very good for Pasture. It is stored with all kinds of wild
fowl. Strathnaver is in length about thirty miles from the
east to the west, and eleven miles in breadth, sometimes less,
from the south mountains to the north sea, wherein I do
not comprehend Edderachilis or Durines. Strathnaver hath
Southerland at the South, Catteynes at the East, Durines at
the West, and the Ocean sea at the North and North West.
The greatest Mountains in Strathnaver are BinChlribig, Bin-
hope, Binstomnie et BinleyoU. There are diverse Lakes or
Lochs in Strathnaver, whereof the chiefest is Loch Mawer,
fall of good fishes. In Loch Leoyle there is ane Island which
is a pleasant Habitation in the summer season. Macky hath
also a summer dwelling in an Island within Loch Stalk in the
Diri More. In diverse of these Lochs or Lakes there is
Pearle found. There are some Islands upon the coast of that

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Countrey in the North Ocean : the chiefest are EUan-Come,
Ellan-Zeyle, Elian-Rome and Elian Neiwe. There is one
Parish in.Strathnaver called Far. Thus much of Strathnaver.
itr. The principal surnames and families which are now in
Southerland, excluding Strathnaver, Duricies, and Ederachilis,
are these, Gordon, Southerland, Moray, Gray, Clangum, Seil-
thomas, Seilwohan, and Seilphaill. The bodies and minds of
the people of this province are endued with extraordinary
abilities of nature. They are great hunters and do delight
much in that exercise, which makes them hardened to endure
travell and labour. The Earls of Southerland are very ancient,
and ranked among the first in Scotland. They have been
always men of great courage. The Earle of Southerland is at
this day very strong and of great power. He holdeth his
Earldome and Lands in Regality and Blench. He is Heredi-
tary Sheriff of that whole Province, and of Strathnaver also,
the Depucy whereof, he hath given of late to Macky. The
Gentlemen of that Earldome do hold their lands of the Earle,
most part Ward and Releef. He hath power to exercise
Justice within all the territories of his province both in
Criminal and Civil Causes and to keep and appoint Courts to
that effect ; and also for the managing of his own Revenues.
He hath from the Duke of Lennox the Heretable Gift of the
Admiralty of the whole Diocie of Catteynes. He is Lord &.
Superior of Strathnaver, Edderachilis and Durines. All which
Lfiuids are annexed to the Earldome of Southerland by His
Majesties Charter under His great Seal.

Description of EAST-LOTHIAN.

The Sheriffdome of Hadington, ordinarily called East
Lothian is in length from Edgbuckling-brae to Cockbumspath
twenty two miles and in breadth from Lambermoorhill to the
sea, commonly called the Water of Forth, in some parts 12
miles, and some parts less.

It is bounded by the Water of Forth on the North & East,
by a tract of Hills called Lambermoor (the one side whereof
are in the Sherifdome of Hadingtoun, and the other side

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within the Sherifdome of Berwick) on the south, & by the
Sherifdome of Ed' or MidLothian on the West.

The considerable River in this shire is the Water of Tine, 118.
which has its beginning in the Sheriffdome of MidLothian
above the Castle of Crichtoun, and falls in the sea at Tynig-
hame. The Water of Keith, Bimes Water, and Paistoun-bum
runs into Tine at Saltoun, and Boltoun Water runs into it at
derkingtoun. In this River are salmon fish but they do rarely
come up above Lintoun Linn, which is a steep Downfall of
water from a Rock 7 miles from the Water-mouth.

There are of stone bridges upon this River of Tine six. one
at Lintoun Brigs, one at the Abbey of Hadingtoun, one at
the burgh of Hadington, one at Pencaitland, one at Ormestoun
and one at Nether Cranstoun.

The Water of Beill has the source above Garvit, and runs
into the sea at Balhaven.

Brokisbum and the rest of the Burns in the east part of the
shire, are most part dry in summer, and are increased in
Winter by snow and Rains from Lambermoorhill, whereunto
they are near.

Peffer is rather a Stank than a Water, and runs in length
East and West, and has two mouths ; one running in the sea
at the West beside Lufness, and the other running in the sea
at the East near Tininghame, and is passable in very few places
in the Winter time.

There are of sea Harbours one at Dunbar, one at North-
berwick, one at Cockeny and one at Morisons Haven. Sundry
other Creeks there are for Barks in summer time as Tynig-
hame Aberlady, and Thorntonloch, and Sketraw.

Burghs-Royal, Hadingtoun, the Head-Burgh of the Shire,
Dumber and Northberwick. Mercat-towns Tranent and Salt
Prestoun and the town of Prestoun and Cockenie and hes fairs.

Two Presbyteries, Hadingtoun &: Dumbar. Hadingtoun Pres-
bytery has the Parish kirk of Prestounpanns, Tranent, Aber-
lady, Dirletoun, Northberwick, Athelstounfoord, Hadingtoun,
Morhame, Bara, Bathanes, Boltoun, Garvet, Saltoun, Pencait-
land and Humble. The Presbytery of Dumbar hes the kirks
of Prestounhauch, Whitekirk, Tynighame, Dumbar, Inner- 119.
weik, Aldhamstocks, Spott, Stentoun, and Whittinghame. It

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is to be remembred that the Parish of Ormestoun is in this
Shire, but in the Presbytry of Dalkeith. And so in this
Shire are 24 Parish Kirks.

The highest Hill is on the south border and is called
Lamberlaw, on the East whereof runs a tract of Hills called
LAuibermoory to the East sea; and on the West an other
tract of Hills through the Sherifdomes of Mid-Lothian,
Peebles, Lanerk, and Shire of Air, Drumfreiss to the West
Sea. It hath other two hills Traprenlaw and North Ber-
wicklaw.

This Shire abounds with corns of all sorts, as Wheat, Rie,
Oats, Pease & Beans & Grass ; and has the Woods consider-
able of Pressmennan, Colstoun, Ormestoun and Humbie and
Fountainhall.

It has much Coal and Limestone, the first serving for fewel,
making salt and burning Lime stone ; the last very useful for
manuring the ground, building, &^

It has many Salt pans, wherein much white salt is made.

From the West part of it towards the sea, all along to the
East part it abounds with Coneys.

It has great store of sheep, especially towards the Hills of
Lambermoor and be west Lamberlaw.

A Manufactory of broad cloath is erected at New Mylnes
beside Hadingtoun. the most considerable in Scotland, where
good cloath of all sorts are made.

At Dumbar and on the Coast thereabout yearly after
Lambmas an Herring fishing, which are sold to the countrey
people, and many made in white and red herrings sent over
seas, especially to France for wines, there are houses for the
making of the red herring.

Many Fisher touns on the sea-coast, whereby many fishes of
all sorts are taken for the use of the Inhabitants and neigh-
bouring Shires especially Edr.
liO, The Isles belonging to this Shire are the Bass which is
admirable first for the structure of it, being a Rock rising out
of the sea, on all parts perpendicular, declining to the south,
and ascending to the North, in circuit, scarce a mile. 2. It has
grass for feeding of sheep on all the surface 3 It has a Well-
spring of fresh water near to the top of it. 4 One of the con-

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siderable Barons of the Shire had his Residence many times in
it. 5 It has abundance of common Doves, Turtle-doves
Skouts, Skarts, and all sorts of sea fowls. But the greatest
rarity of all is the Solane goose, which yearly breads on this
Rock and nowhere else for what is known in Europe, except
in an Isle in the west sea of Scotland called Ailsa. The old
Goose is white, goes from the Bass northward in the end of
September or beginning of October yearly, and returns in
April or May : and as the Inhabitants of the Isle observe,
they sent always some few Geese before as scouts, and then
within few days thereafter the great body follow in several
squadrons. Tliey bring forth but one Goose, and so lay but
one Egg, which is so laid as that it stands on the end, and the
Goose sets on her foot upon it, and so hatches it. But when
the Goose is off it, as seldom she does willingly, if any touch
the Egg, and it remove, it is impossible to make it stand as it
was ; and therefore the Goose lays another Egg, and hatches
it with her foot on it standing on end as the former. The
Solane Geese have this quality, that none of them can fly
except they see the sea, so that when their eggs are laid, (for
nests they have none,) on any ground within the Isle from the
sight of the sea, if any can come between them and the sea^
they may be taken : and if any of the old Geese be driven by
great Winds on land, they are a prey to any that comes where
they are. The young Solane Geese before they fly, are only
for eating, for at that time they are fat and tender, of a large
bigness, weel nigh as big as a common Goose. The flesh of
the old ones is black and tough, they have much oyl in them,
and their feathers serve for bedding. The Heritor will make
yearly for young Solane Geese, of commodity 200 lib.
Sterlin.

The Fort of Tamptallon is the only House of any consider-
able strength within this Shire : it is environed by the sea on iti,
three quarters, situate on a Rock ten fathoms above the sea,
and toward the land it is defended with earthen Works
without, and a strong high stone wall, flanked with three
Towers, a Graff at the root of the Wall and a Drawbridge,
this belongs to Sir Heugh Dalrymple, it was likewise the seat
of the Douglasses.

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The old Castle of Dumbar was famous for streDgth but is
now ruinous.

This Shire is naturally guarded by the sea on the North ft
East and by the hills of Lambermoor on the south, so that
from the one end of it to the other, there is no passage for
Draughts except on three, viz. at Cockbumspath on the East,
at the Myln know in the middle, and Soutray on the West,
and all thir three passages very uneasy.

The most considerable Houses are Seatoun and Wintoun
both pertaining to the E. of Wintoun.

Many others there are and stand as after following, begin-
ning at the West part, viz. Westpanns, Dolphingtoun, Fauside,
Elphingstoun, Ormestoun, Keith, Humbi, Saltoun, Hermistoun,
Blanse, Preston-grange, Preston, Saint Germains, Elvingstoun,
Pilmoor, Clerkingtoun, Newtown to Sir Richard Newtoun,
Bathanes, Newhall, New Yester, Colstoun, Leithingtoun now
Blantyrs, Alderstoun, Rcdhouse, Gosfoord, Aberlady, Lufness,
Saltcoats, Ballincrief, Byres, Garniltoun, Bams, NewMylns,
Monkrig, Morhame, Whitlaw, Linplum, Bara, Nunray, Stanie-
path, Whittinghame, Ruchlaw, Stevenstoun, Beanstoun,
Fenton-Tour, Dirletoun, Congiltoun, Heuche, North Berwick,
Wauchtoun, Craig, Smetoun, Beill, Tynighame, Newbaith
ane house and good police, Gleghorn, Lochend, Newtoim-Lees,
Broxmouth, Tharstoun, Lafeild, Innerweik, Dunglass.
In Doctor Sibbalds hand.

There was a castell at Dirletoun, the tour of Wauchton was
a fort. Newbaith was a fort.
122, Balgon, Sir George Suton in North Berwick parish he has
Adam and Seagak. Gilmerton Einloch. and Matter is his in
the parish of Athelstone foord. By rs E. of Hoptons. Lochend
Warrener. Dirleton has Fenton tour, he has all the parish of
Dirlton in propertie or superioritie.

Balhaven has Biel, Prestminin by Wachton Mains, now
Vicount Teviots. Colstoun Broun. Dalgourie, Broun,
Blance Major Sharp. Ledintoun Blantyrs. Clerkintoun
Cockbum, Aderston Sir Th. Hay Hay of Nunland. Munk-
rig, Hepburn, Harperdeen Bailie Cockbum.

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Description of MIDLOTHIAN or ED^ SHIRE.

The SheriffcLome of Edinburgh commonly called MidLothian
is the first and principal Shire of this Kingdom, and goes in
length from Edgbukling brae, a little be East the town of
Musselburgh southwest by the space of twenty or twenty one
miles to the Mulrane bum upon the West end of Calder-moor
betwixt the said Shire and Sherifitlome of Lanerick.

The breadth thereof is very unequal, The northeast part
from Edgbucklinbrae, quhilk is upon the march of East
Lothian eight miles westward to the mouth of the Water of
Amond being in breadth from the River of Forth southward
to the SheriflPdome of Tweddale 16 or 17 miles. The other 12
or 13 miles, qlk is the southwest part thereof is drawn together
in a Tract in the form of a Gushet, being at the end 14 miles
of breadth, at the midle 5 or 6 miles, and at the southwest
end thereof not exceeding two miles.

It is bounded with the Sherifdome of Hadingtoun or East
Lothian from Edgbucklingbrae, at the River of Forth south-
ward by the space of 13 miles; and with the Bailerie of
Lauderdale about 4 miles on the east, and with the Sherif-
dome of Tweddale from the Rowlands to a little be north
Dunsire be the space of 13 miles upon the south ; and with
the Sherifdome of Lanerick from be north Dunsire to the
Mulrane Burn by the space of 6 or 7 miles upon the south-
west ; and with the said Sheriffdome of Lanerick from the iss^
Mulrane Bum to Fala Hills by the space of two miles upon'
the West ; and with the Sherifdome of Linlithgow from Fala
Hills to the mouth of the water of Amond, where it falls in
the Water of Forth, by the space of 14 miles upon the North-
west, the water of Amond dividing betwixt the two shires all
the said 14 miles, except at the easter and Wester Houldons,
Lethem and Pompherstone where by the space of two miles,
the said Water runs wholly within the said Shire of Mid-
Lothian; and with the river of Forth from the mouth of
Amond to Edgbucklingbrae at the march of East Lothian
by the space of 8 miles upon the north parts thereof.

The principal Waters are the Water of Amond, the Water

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of Leith, the Water of Esk, and the Water of Tine, the
Water of Gala, all which take their beginning and rising out
of the south part of this shire & fall in the river of
Forth upon the North part thereof, except the Water of
Tine which falls into Forth at Tynighame within the Sherif-
dome of East Lothian ; and Gala qlk falls into Tweed a
little beneath Galaschiels within the Sherifdome of Atrick-
Forrest.

The Water of Amond takes its beginning or source from
the Moor heads upon the march of Clidsdale, and from thence
running Northeast by the space of 14 miles is joined with
Forth at nether Cramond. This Water has store of fishes^
but especiaily from the mouth thereof three or four miles
upward there is good store of salmond.

The neighbouring Inhabitants by the space of four or five
miles upward from the mouth of this Water are much damni-
fied by the Inundations thereof, that oftentimes overflows the
low ground, and in the harvest time carries the Corns headlong
into Forth.

There is of stone bridges upon this Water, one with three
Bows at Over Cramond, one with two Bows a little above
Hall Listoun one with one Bow at Calder.

The Houses upon the Northwest side of this Water within
this Shire beginning at the head and descending northeastward
are Wester & Easter Houdons, Lethem & Pompherstoun.
The Houses upon the southeastside beginning at the head and
'i^4* descending northeastward are Grange Alderstoun, the Palace
of Calder, Cliftounhall, and the toun of Cliftoun, Hallyards,.
Briges, Leny, Over Cramond and Nether Cramond.

The lesser Waters which fall into the said Water of Amond
are Breich, Killing, Wyndhorn, Southwood Water, and Gogar
Burn, all which take their beginning upon the Southparts of
this shire and are joyned to Amond upon the North and
Northwest parts thereof.

The Water of Breich hath its rise or beginning at the
Mulrane and descending northeast by the space of 5 miles is.
joined to Amond at the Grange dividing betwixt the Sherifdom
of Linlithgow and this Shire.

The Houses beginning at the head of this Water, and

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descending North eastward are Handiswood, Rashiehill,
Moorhouse dikes, i^iweel. Baddis.

The Water of Killing takes its beginning or source at
Carnvrath moor and falls in the said Water of Amond above
the Palace of Calder at Breich.

The Water of Wyndhom takes its beginning or source a
little above Harwood, and descending northward by the space
of 8 or 4 miles is joyned to Southwood Water a little beneath
the foot of the wood of Calder and a little from thence, both
are joyned to the water of Amond.

Houses upon this Water, beginning at the head and descend-
ing northward are Harwood, Hermischiels, Brothertoun.

Southwood Water takes its beginning at Garronsike where
the S Shires of Lothian Clidsdale 8c Tweeddale meet, and
descending northward by the space of 3 miles, is joyned with
the water of Wyndhorn at the south Bridge of Calder a litle
beneath the Wood thereof.

Houses upon the Southwood Water, beginning at the head
and descending northward are Corsewoodburn, Linhouse
Selmes & Calder hall. There is upon the saids Waters
joined, one stone bridge a little beneath the Wood of Calder.

Gogar Bum takes its beginning a little above Kirk Newtoun
and descending northward by the space of 5 or 6 miles is
joyned to the Water of Amond a little be east the £aster
Brigs.

Houses upon the westside of the said Burn beginning tit its,
the head & descending northward are Kirk Newton, Humbie,
Haltoun, Aldistoun, Ovir Gogar with the Place thereof. Also
upon the east side of the said Bum beginning at the head and
descending northward are the town of Dalmahoy standing
upon a ragged Rock commonly called Dalmahoy Craigs the
Place of Dalmahoy, Waristoun, The town of Hermistoun with
the Place thereof, Redhous.

There is betwixt the said Burn and the Southwood Water
Mortoun Corstoun, and Omiistoun, and betwixt the said
Burn and the Water of Amond, Bonitoun, Ratho, Ratho-
Byres, Nortoun, and Inglistoun.

The Water of Leith takes its beginning at the Cairnhill,
and descending northward be the space of 9 or 10 miles falls

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in the Water of Forth at the famous Town and Harbour of
Leith.

There is upon the said Water of Leith 4S corn mills and a
manufactory lately erected.

The Houses upon the westside thereof beginning at the
head and descending northwards are Revelrig, Curriehill,
Town of Currie, Babertoun, Stenop mills, Sauchtonhall, Dean,
Innerleith, Waristoun, Bonitoun, North Leith. There is upon
the eastside of the said Water beginning at the head and
descending northward Cairns, Bavelay, Balenay, Wester Limp-
hoy, Easter Limphoy, Currie, Killeith, Woodhall, Colintoun^
Redhall, Gorgie Town, Gorgie Mill, Dairy Mills with the
House thereof, Coats, Water of I^ith, Cano Mills, Pilrig,
Bonitoun Mills, Town of Leith.

There is one Burn that falls into the Water of Leith
commonly called the Murrey Bum: it takes its beginning
above Curriehill and falls in the Water of Leith at the
Powder Mill.

Houses upon this Burn beginning at the head and descend-
ing downward are Kiccartoun and Sauchtoun.

Houses betwixt the Water of Leith and Amond are
Corstorphin, Sauchtoun, Craig Crook, Barntoun, Murreys^
Piltoun, Lauristoun, Easter & Wester Drylays, Craig-
Innerleith.

Houses upon the Water of Forth betwixt the mouth of the

196. water of Amond, and the mouth of the Water of Leith are

Nether Cramond, Wester and Easter Grantouns, the old

Castle of Weardie, the fishertoun called New Haven, where

is a manufactory erected for making of Cables and Tows.

The Waters of South and North Esk at the foot of the
Wood of Dalkeith are joyned together in one, and about
two miles from thence at Pinkie fall into Forth.

The Houses upon the westside thereof are Newtoun, Monk-
toun, Monktounhall, Stoniehill, and the toun of Fisheraw.

Houses upon the east side thereof are Smeitoun, Inneresk,
Town of Musselburgh and Pinkie with a stonebridge of
8 bows.

North Esk takes its beginning upon the South of Penthland
hills a little above the Hallis, and descending northward by

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the space of 8 or 10 miles at the foot of Dalkeith Wood i»
joyn^ to South £sk.

The Houses upon the eastside of this Water beginning at
the head and descending northward are Uttershill, Achind-
limine, Gortoun, Hawthomden, Poltoun, Dalkeith Town and
Castle. The Houses upon the westside beginning at the
head are the Grange, Pennycook, Woodhouslee, Rosline^
Dradune, Leswade, Melvill, Lugtoun.

This Water has of Stone Bridges, one at Dalkeith, one at
Lesswade, one at Rosline.

There are between the Water of North Esk and the Water
of Leith, two smaller Waters or Burns, called the Figgat
Burn and Maitland Bum, which take their beginning from
Penthland hills, and descending northward fall into Forth,
betwixt the mouth of the Water of Leith, and the mouth of
the Water of Esk.

The Figgat Bum has its source from Penthland hills and
descendeth northward by Libbertouri and Pepper Mills at Priest-
field fidls into Dudistoun Loch, and from thence into Forth.

The Maitland Bum takes its beginning from a little above
Broomkills and runs down by Stanehouse, Litle France,
Niddrie, and Easter Dudistoun, and falls into the Forth a
litle be west Fisheraw harbour.

There are many good Houses betwixt the Water of Leith m^
and the said Water of North Esk. And first there is betwixt
the said Water of Leith and the Figgat burn beginning at
the foot of Penthland hills, and descending northward to the
River of Forth, Swanstoun, Comistoun, Craig Lockhart,
Craighouse, Braid, Plewlands, Bmnsfeild, the Grange, Sheens^
Wrights-houses, Marchistoun, Preistfeild, Dairy, Coats,
Drum, Pilrig Restelrig, Dudistoun, the Town of Edr, with
the Castle thereof at the one end commonly called the Maiden
Castle, and the Kings Palace at the other end which is the
chief and principal City of this Eingdome and the only Burgh
Royal in tiiis shire: and from thence about a mile north at
the mouth of the Water of Leith, where it falls into Forth,
is situat the Town of Leith with the famous Harbour
for shipping, and is now begun to be fortified by Foussees,
and Rampires, and Draw Bridges upon all sides.

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There are also betwixt the Maitland bum and Figgat Bum,
beginning at the head and descending northward to the River
of Forth, Mortounhall, Southouse, Over Libertoun, Nether
Libertoun, the Inch, Craigmillar, Niddrie.

There is betwixt the Maitland Water and Northesk, begin-
ning at the head thereof, Penthland toun, Stratoun, Murreys,
Gilmertoun, Goodtrees, Drum, Comistoun, Woolmat, SherifF-
hall, the Hill, Brunstane, and Whitehill.

There is betwixt the Hills of Penthland and the Water of
North £sk, Fulfoord, Glencors, and Newhall.

South Esk takes its beginning or source from Morpet Hills
and descending northward by the space of ten miles is joyned
with North Esk at the foot of Dalkeith Wood.

Houses upon the eastside thereof beginning at the head are
Morpet, Maslie, Yorkstoun, Clerkintoun, Temple, Arnistoun,
The Shank, Cockpen, Stoneflet.

Houses upon the westside thereof are Carintoun Town,
Dalhousie, Newbotle.
Ji3, There is of stone bridges upon this Water, one under Dal-
keith, one under Newbotle, one at the head of the Town of
Newbotle and one at Dalhousie.

Betwixt North Esk and South Esk, before they be joined in
one, the distance being but small, and the ground for the
. most part not fertile, except a little above Dalkeith, the
houses of note are situate upon the water side, as is before
expressed, except Whitehill House, which is situate betwixt
the said two Waters against Carintoun, as ye go to Rosline.

The Water of Garre takes its beginning a little above the
Castle of Borthwick, and Halflakill, and descending West or
Northwest by the space of miles, falls in the Water of

Southesk at the point where the House of Shank is situate
betwixt the Waters of South Esk and has a large

prospect of both.

Houses upon this water cure first Halflakill, Castle of Borth-
wick, Newbires, and the Hous of Shank, where the said Water
is joyned to Southesk standing upon the point, as said is.

The Water of Tine takes its beginning or source a little
above Crichtoun Wood and descending northeast by the space
of 4 miles within this Shire, thereafter running through a

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great part of East Lothian Shire, is joyned to Forth at
Tynighame.

Houses upon the east side thereof beginning at the head
and descending northward are the Castle of Crichtoun, Foord,
Over Cranston, little Preston. Houses upon the westside,
beginning at the head and descending northward are Lochqu-
harret, Hagbrae, Vogrie, Foord, and Nether Cranstoun.

There is betwixt the Water of Tine and South Esk, begin-
ning at the south end thereof, and descending northward,
Stobhill, Southside, Westhouses, Mastertoun, Bryane, East-
houses, Coats, Fordell, Langside, Carbery, Cousland, Walifoord.

There is upon the East of the Water of Tine betwixt and
the march of East Lothian, the Towns of Wester and Easter .
Crichtons, Tumidikes, Corstorphin, Fala with the Place
thereof, Sauchneill and Cackmoor.

The only water in this shire that runs southward is the
Water of Gala which has its rising from Falahill, and running lt9.
southward by the space of 6 or 7 miles in this shire, thereafter
is joyned to the River Tweed at Bowside within the Shire of
Teviotdale.

Houses upon the Westside, beginning at the head and
descending downward are Falahill, Heriothouse, Halltree,
Boulands. Houses upon the eastside thereof Cartleferrie,
Crookstoun, Hopringle, Stow Town, Torsonce.

The Burgh of Edr. is the only Burgh Royal in this Shire,
the Towns of Musselburgh and Dalkeith are Mercat Towns.

The Castle of Edr. is naturally a great strenth situate upon
the top of a high Rock perpendicular on all sides, except on
the entry from the burgh, which is a stay ascent and is well
fortified with strong Walls, three gates each one within
another, with Drawbridges, and all necessary fortifications.

There are many great houses, and large in this Shire but
the most considerable is the House and Castle of Dalkeith
pertaining to the Earl of Buccleuch, standing upon the point
at the joyning of South and North Esk, which has a large
Park with a Wood and store of Deer joyned thereto.

The House of Newbottle is well built; pleasantly situate
upon South Esk, having a little Park and some Deir therein
adjoyned thereto.

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The Castle of Dalhousie upon South Esk is a strong and
large Castle with a large Wall of Aslure work going round
about the same, with a tower upon ilk comer thereof.

The Castle of Borthwick is a great and strong Tower all of
Aslure work within and without, and of great height, the
Wall thereof being about 15 foot of thickness. It has an ex-
cellent Wellspringin the bottom without digging, and a house
of good lodgings and well lighted.

The Castle of Crichton is a well built and strong House, it
is well situate with the Park and Wood thereof adjoyning
thereto.

The Palace of Calder is a large and great House pleasantly

190. situate upon a Mote being environed upon all sides with

Waters, with a large Wood upon the southside thereof,

wherein is the prospect of seven or eight miles of plain ground

westward.

Haltoun is an house of great strenth and well built ot
Aslure work with a strong Mantle Wall round about the
same.

Rosline standing upon Northesk is pleasantly situate upon
the head of a Rock, having the Water running close by the
foot of the Craig, and environed upon all sides with Woods.
The entry thereof is at the top of the house by a DrawBridge-
to the bridge upon the Water running by the foot thereof.
The Vaults and houses thereof are cutted out of the whole
Craig, and the stairs and passages descending thereto in like
manner are cutted out of the whole Craig ; so that each Vault
or house cutted out of the said Craig, consists but of one
stone.

The Chappel of Rosline is the most curious stone work in
this kingdom, so that to the eye of man, nothing can be more
exquisitly wrought upon stone.

Upon the east of Rosline at Hawthornden there is a large
Cove with two or three Rooms ilk one within another, having
but one entry, quilk is unpassable except at one part where the
entiy goes along by the breadth of a deal, having the Water
SO or 40 fathoms beneath the face of the Craig, whereinto the
said Cove enters just above.

To the south of Libertoun Kirk there is a Wellspring whichi

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sends up with the Water an Oyl or rather a Balsam reasonable
thick and fat. This Balsam is gathered and preserved by the
Heritors 10 moneths of the Year, and is a soveraign cure for
wrests, Akings ftc.

This Shire consists of two Presbyteries, Edinburgh and
Dalkeith. The Parishes belonging to the Presbytery of
Edinburgh are six Parish Churches within the Burgh of
Edinburgh with twelve Ministers and moe to be pro-

vided, the Church of Holyroodhouse or Chanongate twoi^'.
Ministers. The Landward belonging to this Presbytery are
eleven. South Leith, North Leith, Dudistoun, Libertoun, St.
Cuthberts, Hails, Corstorphin, Cramond, Currie, Ratho,
Kirknewtoun.

It is to be remembred that the Parishes of Calder Cleer,
Calder and West Calder are in this Shire, but in the Presby-
tery of Linlithgow.

The Presbytery of Dalkeith consists of Parishes viz. : — Inner-
Esk, Newtoun, Dalkeith, Leswade, Glencorse, Pennycook,
Newbotle, Cockpen, Carintoun, Temple, Heriot, Borthwick,
Crichtoun, Cranstoun, Fala.

It is to be remembred that the Parish of Stow is in this
Shire but in the Presbytery of Earlestoun.

This Shire is abundantly provided with all necessaries for
the Inhabitants and is fertile of corns of all sorts, as Wheat,
Barley, Rie, Oats and Pease, and has good pasturage for
bestiall and entertains a great many of horses for carrying all
sorts of provisions from the Villages adjacent to the Burgh of
Edr., especially Ale for drink, and Coal for fewell. And in
respect the Burgh of Edr. is a mile distant from the harbour
of Leith, there are a great many horses kept by Carriers for
carrying from Leith to Edr., all sorts of Merchandise and
Commodities that come in by sea.

The Hills in the Shire are Pictland hills or Penthland hilla
which go in a tract from the east to the west through a great
part of this Shire, Neills Craigs, Corstoi-phin hills, but the
most renowned are the Hills of Salisbury, and Arthur Seat,
both within a large Park environed with a stone wall above
four miles in circuit built by King James the fifth for the use ,
of his Palace of Halyrodhouse.

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This Shire hath much coal and lime stone in all parts
isi. thereof and is reasonably well planted with Noblemen and
Gentlemen houses and hath some woods as at Dalkeith, New-
botle, Dalhousie, Crichton, Rosline and Calder.

The Relation of GRAHAMES DIKE with

the Forts and Fortifications that are
upon it.

Imprimis Grahames Dike begins betwixt the Queens Ferry
& Abercorn and goes along West by the Grange k, by Kinneil
and comes to Innereven in West Lothian, and from Inner-
«ven to the Falkirk and be west the Falkirk there is a Town
quilk has been of old a great Town called Camelon. And
from Camelon the Dike goes directly to the Forrest of Com-
mernald, and there is a great Fort and great building called
Castle Kseney.^ And from this fort the Dike goes through
the Forrest, till it come to another great fort with a building
called the Barhill, where there has been many fine stones with
pictures and superscriptions on them, quilk My Lord of Kil-
syth has to shew. And from the Fort of the Barhill, the
Dike goes along west to the Peel of Kirkintilloch where has
been the special Fort and Castle of all, with a great Building,
<and great Foussees, with Rampires and all thir Forts with the
Buildings, are in the bounds of the £. of Wigtoun in a Barony
of Land called the Barony of Leinzem and within the Shire of
Lennox. And from Kirkintilloch this Dike goes along west
to the West sea-bank at Dumbarton and there it ends at the
•entry of the River of Clide, that enters into the sea. But
there are no Forts upon the Dike but thir ; only there is a
great Ditch that goes over upon the northside of the Dike
hard by it, and there is from the beginning of the Dike at the
East sea-bank to the West sea-bank some S6 miles : and as
the report speaks, that betwixt Castle Kaney & Barhill is
some 5 miles. There was a secret Convoy under the ground
that made them acquaint, if there was any treason begun at
the first Fort to the next quilk was the Barhill, and from the
Barhill the like sound went to the Peel and Castle of Kirkin-

* Carey '[interlined].

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tilloch being other five miles betwixjt one sound under the
ground. Here is all that I can shew you in this business.

Another Relation of the same Dike.

The trace of this Fortification beginneth betwixt Abercom iss^
and the Queensferry. Besides the Rampire and Ditch with
the Rooms thereof all along it had many square Fortifications
in form of a Roman Camp. It went west from Abercom to-
wards Kinneil, then to Innereven at I^angtoun a mile be west
Falkirk : a Fort at the Rounetreebumhead, a fort at Wester
Coudoun, above Helens Chappell, one at Croyhill and one at
Caliby, that at the Kirkwood over the Croyhill, on the top of
Barhill: a great one, and at Belchester over against the Barhiil,
at Archindeavie, at Kirkintilloch, at East Calder, at Hiltoun
of Calder, at Balmadie, at Symmerstoun, and over Kelvin
River at Carrestoun, at Auchterminume, at the Roche hill
over against the Wester Wood at Blantyre, over against
Castle Carry at Dunglass.

Description of the SHERIFFDOM of RAN-
FROW holden of the Princes and Stewarts
of Scotland described by . . . Schaw of
Greenok and Mr. James Montgomerie
of Weitlands.

The Sheriffdom of Ranfrow has upon the north the river of
Clide separating it from the Sheriffdom of Dumbarton, except
a little part of the Parish of Ranfraw, quilk lyes benorth
Clide. It is joyned on the west to Dumbarton shire, and on
the east to the Sheriffdom of Lanerick.

On the west and south it borders with the Sheriffdom of
Air and the part thereof called the Raillery of Cunningham
marcheth with the Bum called Kellie Burn.

The River of Clide lyes on the north side of this Shire,
famous and portable for ships of great burden for ten miles.

There are in this Shire three Waters. The first is called
Greiff running out from the moor countries, on the Westside

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of this Shire & runs by the space of nine miles eastward till it
fall in Glide near the Burgh of Ranfrow.

The second is Blackart, having its beginning from the
^^4' Loch of Castle Sempill within the Parish of Lochquhinnoch,
and rims eastward 5 miles, till it fall into GreifT.

The Water of Quhyttcart coming from the moors on the
south side of this Shire runs by the space of miles

northwest till it fall in GreifT, qlk, as is before said, carries the
other two with it into Clide.

The length of this Shire is from Kellie Bum to Polmadie
at the March of Lanerick SO miles long and 8 miles of breadth
at the broadest part.

It is for the most part a plain ground without any great
hills. The west and south parts of it moorish, and the rest
fit both for Corns & Cattel. It has in it Coals, Limestone
and peats for fewel.

The Woods are Crookstoun, Hawkwood, PoUok, Howstoun,
and Barrachane, besides other lesser Woods.

In this Shire at a part called the Knok on GreifF near
Ranfrow was King Robert called Bleareye, cutted out of his
mothers womb by Sir John Forrester of Elliestoun, who being
hazarded in extremity to use that remedy to preserve the
childs life, the Queen having there taken her child-ill, being
on the feilds and dying, the child being quick in her belly.
AVho before that was reputed a simple man, from whence the
House of Sempill and Lords thereof have their name and a
part of their Estate. In memory whereof there is yet a Stone
Pillar erected and standing in that place.

In it is the Roune hill called the Langside, where was
fought that feild betwixt Mary of Scotland and the £. of
Murray Regent called the Feild of Langside, where she was
defeated and forced to fly to England, her son King James
being then but two years of age.

In it there is but only one Burgh Royal called Ranfrow,
and the Burgh of Regality of Paslay, with one Abbacy of
Paslay, qlk now is the chief Dwelling house of the Earles of
Abercorn.

There is in it one Presbytery, having 16 Kirks viz :
ISS. Cathcart, Eastwood, Eglisliam, Meams, Ranfrow, Paislay,

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Ndlstoun, Kilbrachan, Lochquhinnoch, Houstoun, Inchinnen,
Arrestrem, Kilmacolm, Greinok, and Innerkip. The Parishes
of Cathcart and Eastwood are adjoyned to the Presbytery of
Glasgow, all the remanent is called the Presbytery of Paislay.

The most considerable Houses in this Shire are Crook-
stoun pertaining to the Duk of Lennox, Pownoon pertaining
to the E. of Eglintoun, Cathcart, Over PoUok, Nether Pollok,
the Castle of the Meams belonging to the E. of Nidesdale,
Cardonall pertaining to the Lord Blantyre, Cochrane pertain-
ing to the Lord Cochran, Hawkwood to the Lord Ross. Cald-
well, Castle Sempill to the Lord Sempill. Craiganes, Ram-
forlie, Auchnames, Blaikstoun. Castle of Howstoun a strong
Hold, Barruchane, Boghall, Areskin, Bishoptown, Finlastown
pertaining to the E. of Glencame, Newark, Duchill, Greinok,
Gorrok, Ardgowan, Dunrod, AUerslie, from which has de-
scended W™ Wallace sometime Governour of the Armies of
Scotland.

There are no other Lochs, except the Loch of Castle Sempill
wherein is a stone house vaulted.

Bridges in the Shire are Paslay, Pollok, Johnstoun, Ram-
forlie, Calder, Kellie & AUerslie, &c.

Description of the SHERIFFDOM of WIG-
TOUN by Sir Andrew Agnew of Lach-
NAW and David Dumbar of Baldoon.

The Sheriffdom of Wigtoun has upon the east and south
the Stewartrie of Kirkcudbright, and is divided therefra by a
Ferry of 4 miles of breadth called the Water of Cree being of
that breadth 12 miles up and from that Ferry northward up
the said Water of Cree.

The Baillerie of Carrick within the Sheriffdom of Air 136.
bounds the said Sheriffdom of Wigtoim on the north and upon
the West with the Irish Sea, and bounds upon the south by
the sea quilk is betwixt Scotland and the Isle of Man.

The length of this Shire is from the Mule of Galloway to
the Water of Cree 80 miles and fra the Isle of Quhithorn
to the Rounetree 30 miles being the breadth of the same.

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The principal Rivers within this Shire are first the River of
Cree, quilk borders or divides the Shire from the Stewartry,
and has its source from Carrick, quilk River abounds with
salmons, and Spurlings, and falls in the sea at the sands of
Wigtoun.

The next River is Blaidzenoch flowing from Loch Maban,
and montanous parts of Penninghame, abounding with salmon
and goes the length of 20 miles ere it fall in the sea at the
sands of Wigtoun.

Into which River runs the Water of Tarff flowing from
Airtfeild in the moors of Luce and falls in the River under
Cracchlie.

The Water of Malzie flowing from the Loch of Moch Rome
runs by Creloch and falls in the said River at Dalrygle.

The Water of Luce flowing from the Carrick March goes
12 miles ere it falls in the sea at the sands of Luce.

In this Water there runs in the Croce Water flowing from
Airtfield and runs 6 miles ere it fall in Luce at the Moorkirk.

The Water of Solburn flowing from Lochconnal runs 4 miles
ere it fall in Lochryene.

Poltantoun flowing from Auchnatroch runs 8 miles ere it
fall in the sea at Luce.

Abbacies are Glenluce and Saltside. Priories Whithorn.

In it there are two Presbyteries Wigtoun & Stranraar.
W. In Wigtoun Presbytery there are 9 Kirks viz: Wigtoun,
Monygoof, Penninghame, Kirkowane, Mochrome, Glassertoun,
Quhithom, Sorbie, Kirkineir.

In Stranraar there are 9 Kirks viz : Stranraar, Staniekirk,
Kirkcovenant, Glenluce, Inche, Leswead, Kirkcimie, Port
Montgomerie and the Moor kirk of Luce.

Names of the Saltwater Lochs that run in the land are
Lochryan and Luce, qlk environs the Presbytery of Stranraar
so near that it makes it a Peninsula, seeing there the two
Lochs the one upon the south, and the other on the north
are only 3 or 4 miles distant.

Loch Ryan runs in the land 10 miles from the north sea, and
ceaseth betwixt Innermessan and Stranraar.

Luce Loch runs fra the Mule of Galloway to the Ciaigs of
Craig Nargat 16 miles, where it ceaseth upon the Mochrome

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shore in the mouth whereof there ly three Rocks called
Bigistarrs.

Presh-Water Lochs in Stranraar Presbytery are the Loch of
Dalskeilpin, being half a mile of breadth and a myle of length.

The Lochs of Inchcrynnell and Inche, wherein stands a
Tower called Castle Kennedy belonging to the E. of Cassils
with sundry other Lochs, with the Loch of Saltside, whereupon
the old Abbacy stands.

Lochnair Loch belonging to the Sheriff of Wigtoun, wherein
the Kings of old had an House, beside qlk stands the House
of Lachnaw.

Principal Houses in this Shire are Drumoir, Logan, Ard-
wall, Killesser, Balgregan, Clonyeart, Garffland, Dunskey,
Lochnair, Corswall, Gladienoche, Chappel, Castle-Kennedy,
lonermessan, Craig-Caffie, Park, Synenes and Carstreoche.

Salt Water Lochs within the Presbytery of Wigtoun are the
Loch of Wigtoun 4 miles broad, and 8 in length, on quilk 1S8,
Loch there is a Bank of shells that furnishes the Countrey
with Lime and never diminishes the samine being burnt with
Peats.

Fresh Water Lochs in that Presbytery are Applebee, one
mile of breadth and half a mile of length, Ravenstoun of the
like quantity, the Quhite Loch of Mairtoun, quhilk never
freezes, whereon the Laird of Mairtoims House stands.

In the Loch of Mochrome, there are bred a number of
herons and wild Geese with other Fowls.

The Lochs of Ochiltrie, Lochmaberie & Lochcronall.

The Castles of lyll, Glassertoun, Feisgill, Wig, Ravenstoim
Crugiltoun, Mairtoun, Barmbaro, Broughtoun, Baldoon, Tor-
house, Grange, Craiglaw, Mochrome, Castle Stewart, and
Cleray.

Burghs Royal in this Shire are Wigtoun being the Head
burgh of the Shire, having a good Harbour, beside qlk stands
the ancient Monument of King Galdus, from whence the
Shire has its name, called Gallovidia. The other Burgh is
Quhithom, wherein the Priorie stands.

Burghs of Barony Stranraar, and Innermessan.

Harbours Loch Ryan, Port Montgomerie, the Isle of
Quhithom and Wigtoun.

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180 MURRAY

Description of MURRAY.

The Countrey of Murray has the beginning thereof at the
Water of Spey and extends in length to the Water of Ness 34
miles in length.

It has the German Sea upon the North and Northwest ; qlk
divides Murray from Caithness, Sutherland and Ross.

It is fertile of Com and Grass, in pleasantness and plenty of
fruit trees with all, if not before any Countrey in Scotland.
^^' It has within it the Shires of Elgin and Forres, the Shire of
Naime and a part of the Shire of Innerness.

The chief Clans or names of the Inhabitants are these. In
the East betwixt Spey $c Lossie is the name of Innes, having
for their Chief the Laird of Innes, qlk is an ancient family.
Be west Lossie the name of Dumbar, whereof there are sundry
Families, having for their Chief, the Sheriff of Elgin and
Forress. Further West in the Countrey is the Name of Ross,
having for their Chief, the Baron of Kilravok. At the farthest
West part is the Name of Maklntosh called the Clanchattan
having for their Chief the Laird of Maklntosh.

The Chieff Castles and Fortalices in the Countrey are these,
the Tower of Coxton, the Palace of Speynzie, qlk is the Bishop
of Murray his seat, situate upon a fair Loch 4 miles in length,
and one in breadth, wherein may swim many Pikes and Gads ;
the Castle of Elgin, the Kings House demolished by the
Danes; whereof remains now nothing but Redding; the
Castle of Duffins pertaining to the Laird of DufBns, the Castle
of Plewlands belonging to the Marques of Zer, the Castle of
Buge belonging to Robert Dumbar of Buge; the Castle of
Blair belonging to Patrick Dumbar of Blair; the Castle of
AUes belonging to Rob^ Cung of Alles. the Castle of Dam-
phara belonging to Dumbar of Dumphara, the Castle of Davey
belonging to My Lord Murray ; the Castle of Maynes belong-
ing to the Laird of Maynes, the Castle of Pemlo belonging to
Divn of Eastgrange ; the Castle of Intothe belonging to Zey
of Perto ; the Castle of Castle Stewart belonging to My Lord
Murray, the Castle of Dalcus belonging to My Lord Lowel,
the Castle of Balra Castle, belonging to the Laird of Grant.

LANERICK ISl

There are in the Countrey of Murray, only two Monasteries
viz : the Monastery of Kings, wherein was an Abbot and W>
Vault for Monks ; the Monastery of Pluscarty, wherein was a
Prior and IS Monks.

The Burghs in this Countrey are the Burgh of Elgin situate
on the Water of Lossie, the Burgh of Forress situate near
to the Water of Fudore, the Burgh of Naime and Innemess
which has the Water of Ness running through the Town.

The Chief Rivers are Spey, Lossie, Fudore, Naime, Ness,
whereof Spey, Fudore and Ness are very fertile of salmon
fishing.

The Chief Ports and Harbours for receipt of ships are Spey,
Fudore and Ness.

There are thirty eight Parish Kirks in it.

Description of the SHERIFFDOM of
LANERICK by Sir W"" Baillie of
Lamintoun and W"* Baillie of Carphin.

The Sheriffdom of Lanerick is divided in two Wards to wit
the Over and Nether Wards of Clidsdale, and bounds with the
Stewartry of Annandale, qlk is a part of the Sheriffdom of
Nidesdale, on the south east, the Sheriffdome of Drumfreiss
on the south, the Sheriffdome of Air upon the southwest, the
Shiriffdom of Banfrow on the Northwest, the Sherifdom of
Dumbarton on the North, the Sheriffdom of Stirling on the
Northeast, and the Sheriffdom of Linlithgow called West
Lothian on the east, and the Sherifdom of Mid Lothian a litle
to the South east & the Sheriffdom of Peebles on the south
parts.

This Shire is in length fra Errikstane to Partik Bridge 40
miles and in breadth in the broadest part 24 miles and the
narrowest part 16.

The principal River is the River of Clide having its begin-
ning at Errikhill, alias little Clides hill, and runs through the
midle of the whole Shire, and exoners itself at the sea through ui.
Dumbarton Shire,

183 LANERICE

The Rivers running into Glide are Daer Water flowing from
the Well pfsthe running four miles in length before it fall in
Glide.

Porttrail Water flowing fra Eirkhope head running 4 miles
before it fall in Glide, and falls in the Water of Meitines and
then runs in to Glide beside Grooked Stanes upon the southside
of Glide.

The Water of Glennuchan flowing from the hiU of Luthers
runs three miles, ere it fall in Glide, upon the southside of the
said River.

The Water of Glaspine flowing fra the Glaspine hill, runs a
mile, ere it come to Glide beside Nether Newtoun.

Aluine Water flowing from the Luthers, runs about 4 miles,
ere it fall in Glide at Nether Newtoun.

Hartcleuch Water flowing fra the Hartcleuch Hills
runs 5 miles ere it fall in Glide at the Gastle of Graw-
furd.

Gampe Water flowing fra Gouter Stane height runs 6 miles,
ere it falls in Glide at the said Gastle of Grawfurd.

Glengonar Water flowing fra the Luthers, runs 4 miles, ere
it falls in Glide at the Southwood.

Gald Ghappel Water flowing fra the hill called the RaggM
Hill falls in Glide at the Gald Ghappel.

Dinidine Water flowing fra the Hill of Gameteldar, falls in
Glide at Midding Goatts being 13 miles.

Graik Water flowing fra the Quhitcleuch, goes into the
Sherifldome of Nidesdale by the Sauchall.

Wardill Bum flowing from Bimok head runs 3 miles ere it
fall in Glide at Davidshall.

Robertoun Bum coming fra Hartoun hill, runs 4 miles and
falls in Glide at Malmegates Bour.
14*. Hartside Burn coming fra Bontakhead falls in Glide, fore-
anent the house of Bagbie.

Lamintoun Bum flowing fra the Smagill hill running 4 miles
in length falls in Glide.

Gerff Water flowing fra Tyntoche hill runs 4 miles of length
ere it fall in Glide foreanent Lamintoun.

Eastertoim Bum coming fra the hill Montjadifoord runs S
miles of length and falls in Glide at the Quhithill.

LANERICK 188

The Daniel Burn flowing from the top of Tynto mountain
runs two miles, ere it fall in Glide foreanent Lamintoun.

The Laudie moor Bum coming fra Tynto runs about S
miles, ere it fall in CUde above Symingtoun.

Couter Water coming fra Kingsbekhead runs 4 miles and
falls in elide beneath Coulter Mains.

Biggar Water flowing from Bizziebiggarhead runs 2 miles
and fedls in dide beside Drumalzeart.

The two mile Bum coming fra Elfrickle Bog down by
Skirling falls into Biggar Water, and then to Tweed.

The Kirk Bum coming fra Tynto two miles, ere it fall in
Clide beneath Annystoun.

Blaikbum coming fra Tynto 3 miles, ere it fall in Clide
aboye Covingtoun.

Cathquanne Bum coming fra Schallhill falls in Clide fore-
anent Coldingtoun.

The two Medane Waters falling in Clide betwixt Camwath
and Libertoun 6 miles long.

Mons Water coming fra the Corswood hill, runs in Clide
above the Stanebyres being 8 miles.

Clowburn Water on the Westside comes fra Carmichael hill 14s,
and falls in Clide at Clowbum Mill.

Sandies Burn coming from the Howgate flows from the
North side of Tynto and falls into Clide.

Douglass Water coming fra Carnetaboll runs into Clide
about 10 miles, and falls therein above the Bonytoun Lin.

To this Water of Douglass runs in the Bums of Parkbum
Venigtoun Bum, Eisilside Bum, Nethane Water coming fra
the Hills of Ciimarheads ten miles long ere it fall in Clide
beneath Craignethane, the Fidler Bum, qlk comes from Kinke-
go law 3 miles in length, and falls in Clide at the Crocefoord,
the Forrest Kirk Bum coming from Silkego law, mns 4 miles
and falls in Clide at the Miltoun and Maulslie, the Henschaw
Water coming from the Kingslaw, and eastward mns into
dide at Garyne, being 4 miles in length, Disserf Bum coming
fra the West called Calder Moss, runs into Clide at the town
of Disserf, South Calder Water coming fra the Blackstane,
runs 10 miles and falls in Clide foreanent Hamiltoun, North
Calder flowing fra the Blackloch, being twelve miles falls in

184 LANERICK

elide at Calder Bridge, Evin Water coming fra the Glen-
gavells, runs into Glide 12 miles above Hamiltoun at Rosevin^
Reezoche Water coming fra the Loch heads runs into Glide 6
miles through the town of Hamiltoun, and falls in the same at
the Nether town of Hamiltoun. Rottin Galder Water coming
fra the heads of Evindale beneath Bothwell Gastle about 10
miles. Tivitt goes into Glide at Dilenvie being S miles,
Mormeer coming fra Dechmont hills, falls into Glide above
the Ferme. Ruglan Bum coming fra Gathkine hill 4 miles
144* falls in Glide beneath Ruglan, the Langside bum being 2
miles falls in Glide at Over Grovan, Blackart coming fra
Gathkine hill runs 10 miles through Renfrow, ere it come to
Glide, Powcorse Bum coming fra the Provin Lochs runs into
Glide at Ardgray 4 miles, Gamelekie Burn coming fra Salmbrae,
runs into Glide at Bogilshow, Port Glasgow Bum runs through
a part of Glasgow and runs to Glide at the bridge thereof two
miles.

Burghs Royal, in this Shire are Glasgow, Lanerick and
Ruglan.

Burghs of Barony, Hamiltoun, Grawford, Biggar, Gamwath,
Douglass and Evindale.

One Abbacy to wit Lismahagow and the Provestry of
BothwelL

The principal Houses are Hamiltoun, Douglass, Bothwell
Gastle, Graig of Blantire, Lamintoun, Grawford, Govingtoim^
Biggar, Garmichael. the Lie, Gorhouse, Stanebyres, Gamwath»
Gleghom, Jariswood, the Miltoun, Maulslie, Disserf, Gastlehill,
Evindale, GraigNethan, the Monkland, Orbistoun, Garphin,
Lachobe, Gamebroo, Gleland toun, Dalyell. the Perm, Lick-
privick, Rapluch, Gassiltoun, Broomhill, Stenhouse, Patrick-
holm, Torrens, Galderwood, Mayns of Kilbryde, Gathkine^
Gilbertfeild, Murdestoun, Allantoun, Gultness, Murrows, the
Haggs, Faskine, Woodhall, Inchnoche, Provin, Airdrie,
Rossevin, Jervistoun.

There were (Sold Mines found in K. James the 6**** time
and Gold on Lamintoun yet, and fine Lead Mines in Glengonar
Water at Symingtoun.

There is in this Shire abundance of coals. Lime stones and
Peets for fewel.

ROXBURGH 186

Woods are Hamiltoun Wood, Stanebyres, Miltoun, Cam-
nethan, Clegbom, Jariswood, Jervestoun, Dalyell, the Rossevin, UB.
Bothwell, the Park of Bothwell, the Castlewood, the Monkland
with sundry other woods there, the Woods of Lismahagow.

The Lochs in this Shire are Carstairs, Camwath, Cudilie
Loch, Lanerick, the Headloch, the groundless Loch, the
Lochwatts, Provin Loch, Garvirie, Gartsharie, Garqueme,
Banheth Loch.

It hath store of Grass, Corn and Fishes of all sorts, the
Over Ward most for pasturage, the Nether Ward for corns.

The Chief Hills are Luthers, Tynto, Damgavell, Mont
Inervar, Kingsbek heicht. Coulter heichts, Damoch heichts,
Hurillbury heichts, the Ragged-gill heichts, Dechmont Hill,
Bissieberry Hill, Quathquanne Law, Cametabell, the Blackhill
above the Stanebires, the Kings law.

Description of the SHERIFFDOM of
ROXBURGH by Sir Wm. Scot of
Harden, and Andrew Ker of Sinlaws.
27 December 1649.

The Sheriffdom of Roxburgh on the south, bounds with
Cheviot hills, all along to the West of Eershope foot within
6 miles of Sulway sands, on the West, it marches with Eusdale
and Eskdale, and on the North west with the Sheriffdom of
Selkirk till ye come to Gala mouth and up Gala 6 miles and
goes to Lidder Water foreanent Couldanknows and on the
North and Northeast with a part of Lothian and the Merse.

It is in length 26 miles, and in breadth 16 miles.

The principal River is Tiot, from whence the Shire has its
name qlk comes from Esk in England, and from the March in
Nidesdale called Tiots Stane, and runs fra the West to the
east, till it go in to Tweed at Kelso, and there tynes its name
and is in length 26 miles.

Waters running in to it, are Frostile Bum, qlk begins at X^.
Hard well, and runs into Tiot at the Falineshe.

The Forkin Bum quilk begins 8 miles above the Falinshe
and runs into Tiot at the said Falineshe.

186 ROXBURGH

Eilem Water quilk b^ns at the head upon Angus Hope
and runs into Tiot, at AUane Maithe two miles above Branx-
holme.

Slitrik quilk begins at Stenhouse Hope, and runs into Tiot,
within the Town of Hawick.

The Water of Reule begins at Wauchophead and runs down
to Tiot entering in therein at the Spittle of Reule being eight
miles of length.

Jedd Water beginning at the Quheill Causey in the border
of England runs to Jedburgh, where it has a bridge and enters
Tiot a mile beneath Jedburgh.

Oxnam Water begins at the Redswyre and runs into Tiot
at Crailing 8 miles of lenth.

E^aiil Water comes fra the Hynmoorwell,on the Borderof Eng-
land and runs into Tiot at Ekfoord and is 10 miles of length.

All the former Waters come from the south border of
England & run on the south side of Tiot.

On the north side are the following Waters.

Borthwick begins at Craikcorse, marching with Eskdale and
runs into Tiot foreanent Gaudiland, quilk is 10 miles of length.

Gall Water flows out of Calmoor Loch two miles above
Quhittis laid, and runs into Tiot att Ancram Bridge, quilk
will be 14 miles of length.

Tweed River enters Teviotdale at Sunderlandhall and runs
down by Kelso to Redding, where on the southside of it is
English ground & on the northside is the Merse, till it go
down to the sea at Berwick.
Xf7. The foot of Gala Water enters Tweed in Teviotdale two
miles above Melros.

Lider enters Tweed in Teviotdale a mile beneath Melros.

Idin Water enters Tweed foreanent Redding.

All thir are upon the Northside of Tweed.

In Teviotdale also is the Water of Liddill running West to
Meirburn, and fra that to Cannabie in Esk, and is in length
16 miles.

Hermitage Water begins at Bilhope, and runs into Liddill
about a mile under Cassiltounkirk.

The head of Bewmont Water begins at the Cocklaw in the
border of England, and runs eastward, till it come to the
Stawfoord and there tynes its name, and goes to England.

ROXBURGH 187

The Abbacies in this Sbire are Melross, Kelso, and Jedburgh :
the first on Tweed, second on the same at the foot of Tiot,
and Jedburgh on the Water of Jedd.

The principal Houses on Tiot are the Falineshe, Branks-
holme, the Tower of Hawick, Cavers, Mynto, Ancram,
Newtoun, Crailling, Mostower, the demolished Castle of
Roxburgh where K. James the 2** was killed with the Wedge
of Canon at the seige thereof.

On Slitrik are Stobbs and Alderstown Scheills.

On Reule are Woolie, Hallreule & Bedreule.

On Jedd Edgertoun, Dolphinstoun, Fairnyhirst, Hundilie,
Bon Jedwart. HunthiU, and the Tower.

On Oxnam Craig & Crailling Hall.

On Kaill, Quhittom, Corbet, Castle of Cesford and
Throkden.

On Bewmont, Mow and Lochtower. On Borthwick Harden.

On Gall, Quhittisleit, Swyntoun, Jeshaw, Riddill, Cavers
and ChappeL

On Tweed the Floors, IVl^Kerstane and Smellame Craigs. 148.

This shire is plenteous of all sorts of grain, and store of
Cattell but no other elding but Peats and Heather.

The Mountains therein are the Cocklaw, from qlk there
runs a full track of hills going along westward dividing
Scotland fra England, qlk is only passable at some few parts,
and so the names of them need not here to be particularised.

There is another Tract of Hills going fra Hardwell, qlk
runs along to Craikcross being \% miles.

Within the body of this Shire are thir Hills, Balburghlaw,
Mynto hill, and Haddingtoun hills.

The Lochs in this shire are Scheilswood Loch, Askirk Loch,
Caldsheil Loch, a Loch at Fallinside, Lintoun Loch, Loch-
tower Loch, Wynburghlaw Loch, on the head of the Hill,
Ormstoun Loch, and Drinking Stone Loch.

The Battells stricken in this Shire are Lilliarts Corse,
where the English were defeat, and the battel of Melross in
James the 5^^ his time and the battel at the Redswire.

The Woods are Branksholm Wood, the Colve Wood,
Ancram Wood, EUudeane Wood, and Birk Wood.

It has only one Burgh Royal called Jedburgh with diverse
burghs of Barony.

188 SELKIRK

It is to be understood that lidesdale is comprehended in
this Shire whereof the Chief Castle is called Hermitage be-
longing to the E. of Bucdeuch. The Lord Soules had in old
time his stately Residence here.

m Description of the SHIREFDOM of
SELKIRK by W^ Eliot of Stobbs
& Walter Scot of Arkiltoun.
21 December 1649.

The Sheriffdom of Selkirk has the Baillerie of Lauderdale
on the east & northeast, the Shiriffdom of Roxburgh, or
Teviotdale on the east and south, the Shiriffdom of Nidesdale
and Stewartry of Anandale on the West.

The length of it is from the pen of Etrikhead till the
Water of Etrik fall in Tweed at Sunderlandhall and beneath
that it runs two miles to the mouth of Gala, and up Gala
to the Corshey and then out at the head of Caden, being of
length 20 miles. At the head of the Forrest of Etrik, it is
12 miles in breadth, in the middest of the Shire, it is 8 miles
in breadth and at the foot, it draws narrower, where the two
Waters of Etrik and Yaro meet at Sunderlandhall, and there
fall in Tweed as said is.

The Water of Etrik begins at Lochfell, called Etrikhead
and meets with Yaro and both fall in together at Sunder-
landhall as said is, and is in length 16 miles.

The Waters falling in Etrik are thir.

Tuna flowing out from the bounds of Nidesdale from
Tomluther Croeestane entering in to Ettrik a little above
Thirlstane.

The Water of Rankleburn coming fra Muddhave Loch
enters

The Water of Yaro lyes on the Northside of Etrik has
its source from Eirkhill, being there called Mucra Bum, quilk
falls in the Over Loch of the Lowes, qlk Loch is both in
length & breadth a mile, and fra that runs down to the
Nether Loch thereof distant half a mile ; then it runs fra the
said Nether Loch, (qlk is two miles in length, and a mile and

SELKIRK 1S9

a half in breadth) and getts the name of Yaro, and falls in
Etrik betwixt Charterhauch & Philiphauch.

The Burns running into Yaro are Corsecleuch Bum coming
fra the head of Kingsgrame and falling in betwixt the Loch 150.
of the Lowes where it tynes its name.

Eltrive Bum flowing from Kingsgrame head falls into Yaro
foreanent M omberger at the foot of Eldines Hope.

Sundhope Bum flows from Sundhope Edge and falls into
Yaro foreanent the Catislake at the foot of Sundhope.

Kershope Burn comes off the March of Kirkhope and falls
into Yaro beneath Deuchar.

Craighope Water falls off a Mountain called Caplaw and
runs into Yaro beneath Deuchar foreanent the Tynnes.

On the head of Yaro upon the Northside thereof are these
waters.

Douglass Bum flowing from the head of Maner Water in
Tweddale and falls into Yaro at Momberger.

Lovineshope Bum falls out of the three heads in Tweddale
ft in Yaro above the Hangingschaw.

Philiphauch Bum runs fra the head of Williamlaw and
down to Etrik foreanent Selkirk. Here James Grahame
Marquess of Montrose got that notable defeat, qlk made him
quite Scotland in anno 164^.

The over part of the Shire has no arable ground, but only
is montanous and fiill of heichts fit for store and bestial, by
several whereof the people are totally sustained. The lower
part of it, has corns upon the Water sides.

It has no other fewel for fire but Peets and these digged
out from the tops of the Mountains.

The great Hills are Lochfell called the Pen of Etrik'head,
Glendary, Birkhill, Lochskeine, Falahead, Black Andrew,
Caplane & Harehead.

The only free Burgh of the Shire is Selkirk.

The principal Houses are Newwark Castle, Philiphauch, 151.
Aikwood,Thirlstane, Kirkhope, Galaschiels,Torwodlie,Quhite-
bank, Blindlie, Yair, Faimelie and Sunderlandhall.

The Newark was of old the Kings Property, and the
Tower is 14 foot thick of the wall, standing on a Mote with
a large Vale of ground beneath within a mile to the place,

140 SELKIRK— TWEDDALE

where Yaro falls in Etrik. This was of old the Kings Forrest
for his store and hunting, and for many ages the Queens of
Scotland had it by Infeftment for a part of their Dowry ; but
it was fewed to the Lairds of Buccleuch for good service, by
Queen Mary.

Williams Croce is the place, where one of the Earles of
Douglass was killed of old. It stands in the heicht of an Edge
beside Braidmeadows within a mile of Philiphauch.

It has only 4 Parish Kirks, Selkirk, Galascheils, the Mary
Kirk of the Lowes clKos Yaro Kirk, and the new Kirk of Etrik.

The principal Heritours are the Earles of Buccleuch,
Traquair, Sir William Scot of Harden, Sir John Murray of
Philiphauch, William Eliot of Stobbs, James Scot of Gala-
schiels, Pringles of Quhitebank, Torwoodlie, ^ Blindlie.

The Lochs are Clobum Loch, the Pot Loch, the Kingside
Loch, the Bachielaw Loch, Gosloch, the Lowe Loch, Elmoor
Loch, Haremoor Loch, Aikermoor Loch, Twa Gildis Loch,
Esynside Loch, Jeshur Loch, Hittringburn Loch, and Haining
Loch.

Woods are Galashiels, Faimilie, Yair, Newwark, Aikwood,
Harehead, Kirkhope.

In the Water betwixt the Lochs of the Lowes, there is
a sort of Fish taken something more than a Herring called
Redwaimbs qlk are never seen nor taken but betwixt All-
Hallows, and Martimass, the space of ten days, being very
savoury meat.
I5f, The Lochs abound with Pikes, Pearches and Eels, which
are taken in there about Michaelmass and salted in punsheons
for the peoples winter provision.

Description of TWEDDALE.

Tweddale is so called from the river of Tweed which hath
its source and rise at a place called Tweeds Cross, where it
borders with Annandale & runs for the most part with a soft
and gentle stream, not hemm'^d in with strait & narrow Banks
towards the east, the whole length of the Countrey to the
March at Gaitock bum, and there beginneth to water the
Forrest on both sides a little above the Elibank.

TWEDDALE 141

This oountrey is bounded on the east with the Forrest ;
on the south with part of the Forrest, St Mary Loch, and
Annandale, on the west with the Over Ward of Clidesdale ;
ft on the north with part of Caldermoor, the head of North
Esk and Mid Lothian.

The length of it from Tweeds Cross to Gaitock burn will
be 26 Scots miles, and where it is broadest, not exceed-
ing 16.

It containeth 17 Parish churches to wit. Linton, Newlands,
Eirkuird, Lyne, Peebles, Athelstone, Innerleithin, Traquair,
Maner, Dawick, Drumelzear, Stobo, Broughton, Glenholm,
Tweedmoor, Eilbucko and Skirlin. These 17 make up a
Presbytery called the Presbytery of Peebles, which is within
the Diocese of Glasgow, whereof the Parson of Peebles hath
been for many Ages the Arch-Deacon. The yearly Revenue
will be 5000 merks communibua annis. The rest of the 16
Presbyters will have about 1000 merks yearly one with another,
and Manse and Gleeb according to Act of Parlia^ and custome
of the rest of the countrey.

There is one Burgh Royal here, to wit Peebles, and two of
Regality Linton, and Eilbucho of which more in their proper
places.

This Countrey is generally swelled with hills, but for the
most part green, grassy and pleasant, except a Ridge of
bordering Mountains betwixt Minchmoor and Henderland, 159.
which are black and craggy, of a melancholy aspect, with deep
and horrid Precipices, a weary and comfortless peice of way
for travellers.

The Valleys are most of them pleasant, fertile of com and
meadow and excellently watered.

The chief and most conspicuous amongst the infinite number
of Mountains in this Countrey are Hartfeild, Braidlaw DoUer-
law, Crammalcraig, Dundroich, Powbeat, Mendick, Fiendsfell
(where the Eagle builds her nest, as she builds likewise at Talo
Linn, Loch of the Lowes, and Loch Skeen in Annandale, and
at the Ern Craig in the Parish of Pennicook) Kingseat, Kaim-
hill, Craigingar. Upon the top of the last black mountain in
a large Quagmire grows abundantly the true Cockkaria
Britanmca rotundifoUay as likewise upon the tops of several

142 TWEDDALE

other barren Hills in Tweddale. Upon this Hill also grows
the Chamas monis.

The Countrey in regard of its hilly situation and difficulties
of labour to iBinswer the toyk of the Husbandman, is more fit
for Pasturage, than the Production of Com and Grain, and is
stored with such numbers of sheep, that in Linton Mercats,
(which are kept once a week during the moneths of June and
July) there are sometime to be seen 9000 in the Customers
Roll, and most part of all these sold and vended in one day.

They sow little Wheat or Pease, though they take very well
with the soil, but have of Barley and Oats greater plenty than
is sufficient for the Inhabitants, the lower and more fertile
places supplying the barren and more moorish with Corns and
producing as much more as pays many of their Martimass
^^4' Rents to their Master ; especially the Water of Lyne, Athel-
stone 8c lower parts of Tweed.

The greatest want here is of Timber, there being but litle
Planting in Tweedale, except it be some few trees about the
houses of the Gentry, and not one Wood in all this Countrey
worth the naming ; so that this want of foresight compells them
to be obliged to Clidesdale for most of the timber necessary
for their Houses & Husbandry.

For Fewel they use Peet and Turf, which is here in abund-
ance. They have likewise a Coalpit at Carlops, and another
in the Common of Linton, wherewith the most of the Gentry
of the Shire are served.

Here is Marie and Limestone, the first whereof I found in
ditching a peice of fat Meadow, that comes to the seed, & is
mown twice a year, contiguous to the Damm of Romano Mill.
It is likewise found toward the Garelfoot, and about Blyth.
The last I have not yet seen. All the Marie that I have taken
notice of in this Countrey, is of a milk white colour. There is
good Limestone found at the Wrae in the Parish of Glenhohn
at Spittlehauch, Coldcoat, Carlops, Garrelfoot, and Whitefeild,
which in this part of the Shire especially is very much improven
of late to the advantage of the Countrey in reducing many of
the dry and barren Heaths to fertility and a fairer complexion.

They have freestone and hardstone, slate & scaillie, as good
as is in Scotland, the best Quarries whereof are at Stobo and

TWEDDALE 148

Greistone and in this last place there is abundance of Lead
for the taking of a little pains. Some of it was wrought and
taken out by the present Countess of Traquair, but they were iss.
discouraged for want of Timber necessary for the purpose.
Here are likewise the Silver Mines of Lead Law, half a mile
above Linton commonly called the Silver Holes.

The Lihabitants of this Countrey are generally of strong,
well proportioned, nimble bodies, and as comely features as
any other Shire in the Eingdome, would but the meaner sort
take a little more pains to keep their bodies & dwellings
neat. And pity it is to see a good complexion and lovely
countenance appear to so much disadvantage, through the
foul disguise of smoke and dirt.

There will be of young and old in this Countrey about 8000
souls, and above SOOO of these, fencible men able to bear arms.

Their proportion of the Militia is 266 foot & 29 horse.

They are an industrious carefuU people, yet something
wilfuU, stubborn and tenacious of old Customes. There are
amongst them that will not suffer the wrack to be taken off
their land, because, say they, it keeps the corn warm, nor
plant trees for wronging the undergrowth, nor take pains
upon their Hay to make it well smelled and coloured, because
they allege musty Hay brings their Cows a Bulling, nor ditch
and trench a peice of boggie ground for fear of the loss of 5 or
6 foot of grass for a far greater increase. And this humour
with a Custome they have of overburdening their ground,
which they call full plenishing, makes their Cattel generally
small, lean and give a mean price in a market. But otherwise
they are a provident laborious people far beyond their Neigh-
bours in Annandale that possess a far better Countrey, would 156»
they take but half as much pains to improve it. Musick is so
great a stranger to their temper, that you shall hardly light
upon a one amongst three that can distinguish one Tune from
another. Yet those of them that chance to hit upon the
Vein, may match with the skilfullest. They are naturally
more sober in their drinking and diet then their neighbouring
Shires and when they fall in the humour of good fellowship,
they use it as a cement and bond of society, and not to foment
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places, so that upon triall, there hath not been a man dis*
covered to have been murdered or mutilat in Tweddale rinoe
the Kings happy Restauration. And of so loyal and peaceable
dispositions are they, that they have seldom or never appeared
in Arms against their Prince, nor were there amongst that
great number six persons from Tweddale at the Rebellion of
Bothwell Bridge. Of their Loyalty they gave a singular
testimony at the fight of Philiphaugh, where some of them
were killed, and others the most eminent of their Grentry
taken Prisoners.

The Lochs of this Countrey are first the great St. Mary
Loch, the Water Loch of Blackbarony, and the Slipper feild
Loch. St Mary Loch is in circuit at least six miles, siur-
rounded with pleasant green Hills and Meadows; the hills
overspread with flocks of sheep and Cattel, the Rocks with
herds of Goats, and the Valleys and Meadows with excellent
com and Hay. It is fed with several little Springs and Brooks
but chiefly with the Water of Meggit which with a clear
1G^» stream runs gently down a long Plain and discharges itself
prettily in its very bosom. And as this Loch ows its being to
Meggit, so it gives birth to the Water of Yaro, which with a
large and pleasant Current descends from the other end of
this Loch, as its Spring and fountain, and from thence
watereth the Woody Banks of the Forrest, untill it joyn
Waters with Etrick, & both pay their tribute to Tweed a
little below Sunderland haugh.

And it is observable, that a brisk wind from the South
West, will make Yaro swell and overflow its bounds more than
a great deal of rain, by driving the Water from the Loch
furiously down the current.

In this Loch are Trouts, Eels, Pearches, Pikes and a kind
of Fishes, called by the Countrey people Red Waimbs from the
bloud red colour of their Belly. The fish itself is about the
bigness of a herring with a forked tail. The Herds about
Michaelmas use to take great numbers of them catching them
in their Blankets at a little Rivulet that comes from the Loch
of the Lowes into this, the two Lochs being almost one and
divided by a very small nick of ground.

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miles and is famous for the great number of Eds that are
taken there, especially when the Wind blows smartly from the
South. It^s incredible what will be found in the artificial
Ark built for the purpose, upon the following day.

The principal Waters of this Countrey are Tweed, Lyne
and Maner, of less note are Atlestone, Quair, Tairth, Holm,
Utbin, Meddin, Meggit, Frood, Talow and Biggar Water
besides an infinite number of Burns, Brooks and Springs, that
almost every where are seen trinkling down the green Hills
with a melancholy but agreeable murmur.

The Water of Lyne beginneth at the Caldstaneslap, which
is the March betwixt this Countrey and the Sheriffdom of
Edinburgh and runneth pleasantly from North to South, the
length of ten miles, and loseth its name into Tweed a little
below the Bridge of Lyne. Upon this Water are three pretty 158.
little churches covered with slate ; four Bridges, two of stone,
the Brighouse Bridge, and the Bridge of Lyne, the first of one
Arch the second of three; and two of Timber with strong
stone stools, the one at Lyntoun, the other at Newlands.

Upon this Water and near by it stand first Cairnmoor the
old of the Lausons, in whose possession it is now, and hath
been for some generations. Over against it is Barringail and
further down Stainypath, Wakfeild, the Brighouse with the
Bridge and Brighouse Mill and under that is the Town and
Church of Linton, dose upon the Water, in a large and grassy
plain. This Town was in the Earle of Morton^s time a
Pendicle of Dalkeith, but was erected into a Burgh of Regality
by the Earle of Traquair then Commissioner for this Kingdom.
The Earle of Tweddale is now Lord of this Regality and
distributes Justice by his Baillie, who is the Sheriff Depute for
the time. The Inhabitants of this Town have still been a
gentile and courteous people occasioned partly by their con-
tinual converse with strangers upon the road this being the
high way from Edinburgh to Moffat, Drumfreis, and Carlisle,,
the Portioners being most of them the Offspring of the
Douglasses Giffords and Twedies, but the old families are now
decayed except the Youngers.

There are two fairs kept here yearly; the first upon the
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likewise the greatest sheep marcat in the south of Scotland,
which is kept once a week upon the Wedensday during the
moneths of June and July. It was formerly holden at the
Brighouse, but translated hither by the late Earle of Teviot a
little before his unfortunate Voyage to Tangier.

About this place grows the Laurell leaved Willow to a
greater body and height then I have observed any where else.
A litle below this Town there is a peice of ground called tbe
Temple land of Lintoun where after every flood there do
appear the ends of a great many stone cofiins, the soft mould
i59, being washen away by the force of the Water. The stones
are a broad Flagg close joynM together, where I found the
Skulls, Leggs, Arms and Thigh bones of men. But when at
upon what account these Bodies have been buried in this
place after such a manner, is not positively determined, but I
am inform^ these stone coffins are found in some other
solitary places in Tweddale; the Bones are not discerned
bigger then ordinary.

A little below this place, the West Water and Caimburn,
the first from the West, the other from the North East, fall
into Lyne. The West Water in the old Charters called
Polinturf, descendeth from the mountain of Craigingar, and
. runs the length of 4 miles and an half before it joyn with
Lyne. Upon it stand the Slipperfield with the Loch before
mentioned, two of which to wit the Yewthird and Middle
third belonged of old to Pennicook of that Ilk, and was a
Pendicle of that Barony : now they belong to James Bussel of
Kingseat Chief of that Name in this Countrey. Further down
upon the highway stand the Houses called the West Water
and the Braidhaugh. The Cairnbum riseth from a Moss a
litle above the Over Whitfeild, and upon it are the Over and
Nether Whitfeild. Here is found the best Limestone in
Tweddale, and the dry Moors here produce copiously the
Genistella aculeata, & in some places Erica vulgaris hirsutn
^flore albo. The next House upon the Water of Lyne is
Spittlehaugh built anno 1678 by Richard Murray brother to
the Laird of Blackbarony, to whom it now belongs. Next is
the Eaimhouse, Boghouse, and Commonhaugh.

A little below this, Lyne receiveth into it the Dead Bum a

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Water so called from the slowness and stilness of its motion.
It hath its beginning near the Grange at a place called the
Cross Well, and gently moving towards the South-west, waters
a peice of plain and fertile ground the length of two miles ft a
half, & then pays its tribute to Lyne, a little below Rom-
anno Mill, here is excellent Keel Stone. Upon the head of
this stands first Romanno Grange, with a house builded anno IGO,
1668 by Robert Hamilton, here grows plentifully the Vaccinia
pahuiria. Then Coldcoat the old Dwelling of the Hamiltons
repaired by Alexander Hamilton Macer to the Session and
present Master thereof. Betwixt tliese Hamiltons of Coldcoat
and the Murrays of Romanno there continued for many
generations, a cruel and inveterate Feud with blood and
slaughter on both sides, in which the Hamiltons for the most
part got the worse. This barbarous Heat was in the end
happily extinguished by the Marriage of Susanna Hamilton
eldest daughter of the House of Coldcoat to William Murray
Heir of Romanno. Further down is Bums Mill the noble
House of Flewland formerly a Pendicle of the Estate of Cold-
coat, now the Property and Dwelling place of Alexander
Bailly of Callings. Near this place grows the (Enanthe
Aquatica and Maim. Follows the Bogend and Hallmyre a
pleasant stance ft very capable of improvement. The House
was built by the Laird of Drumelzear, but belongs for the
present to a Nephew of the House of Blackbarony. Next is
Romanno-Deans and Romanno Mill, and so we meet again
with Lyne, ft the old House of Romanno, which is situate at
a little distance towards the Hill, and hath been for several
100 of years of one Family, the Romanno's of that Ilk. but the
Heir Jonet Romanno marrying a brother of Philiphaugh
changed the Name, but not the Stock, and ever since it hath
continued in the name of Murray. The present Heiress being
the seventh lineally descended of that Name married to Doctor
Alexander Pennicook who is now Heritor of this place Jure
Mariti, Near this place upon the skirts of Blythsmoor is
found Verbc^culum Alpinum rubrum, A short mile under
Romanno stands the Church of Newlands, where is to be seen
the Isle and Burial place of John Murray Brother to William
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Stenhope. Upon the front of the Burial place are engraven

161. his Name arms and this Inscription.

Hie quia fonte sacro lotus sum saxea moles
Errigitur grati mnemosynon animi.
Here is likewise to be seen close by the Church yard, the
place called Grahames Walls. And it is reported and very
probably, that out of the ruines of this House was built the
Church and the Tower house of the Whiteside, which stands
upon the Hill immediately above. Here are digged up great
Foundation Stones, and some remainders of the Ditches that
fortified the House, are to be seen to this day. What
Grahame was Master of this Place, none here about can give
satisfactory Information. Only by comparing Records ft
Histories I find especially by some parcels of the Douglass
History, that William Lord of Lidesdale, commonly called
the Flower of Chevalry, was married to Margaret Grahame
daughter to Sir John Grahame of Abercom by whom he got
the lands of Dalkeith, Newlands, Elbucho &® and after the
murder of the said Lord of Lidesdale by the Earle of Doug-
lass; these Lands of Dalkeith, Newlands & Kilbucho fell into
Sir James Douglass of Louden, who had espoused Mary only
daughter to William Lord of Lidesdale, who were the first of
the name of Douglass that had interest in this Countrey.
lliis is likewise the House, where Alexander Stewart Lord of
Bonckle, and the valiant Randulph, afterwards Earle of Murray
and Governour of Scotland, were taken Prisoners, and con-
quered to Robert Bruce^s side by good Sir James Douglass.

Over against the Newlands is Eirkland, Boreland and Cow-
throple now called Callins. And further down upon the
mouth of a Burn called Glen Yla, is Flemington Mill, and
upon the head of this Burn, is Fingland and Courop, and on
the southside of the Hill, stands Hairhope belonging to James
Chisholm Commissar Depute of Peebles. We come next to
the Stevinston, which hath been long in the name of Brown,
and over against it, the Castle of the Drochell a great bulk of
a House, five large stories high, the one half without a roof

let. and unfinished, of a square form, six score ells in compass: the
Hall above 50 foot of length ; and the Kitchin Chimney is of
so vast a wideness, that the Tenant of the place, will some-

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times stack up 100 threaves of Com into it, & room for much
more. It was founded by James E. of Morton Regent anno
1578 with his Name & the Fetter- Lock on the front. But
this misfortune of this eminent Man, put a period to this
great Work and his Life, he being beheaded at Edinburgh, a
short time after in the Year of God 1681. It belongeth now
to the Earle of Tweddale. We come next to the Howbum,
then to a Boscage of pleasant dwarf Birches, called the Scrog
Wood ; then Scroggs, Hamilton, Wester Hallprew, the Church
and Town of Line. Near this Church upon a large plain
above the Water, is to be seen the remainders of a great fort-
tification, called to this day by the Countrey people Randalls
Trenches. The Work is of Earth, of a round form, large 700
ells in circuit with three large and deep Trenches with their
Ram and a spacious Plain within, which is likely to have been
a Roman Camp. Here are two large Entries, and from the
one there is a laid Causey the length of half a mile to the
Town of Lyne and some appearance of Drawbridges. Some
alledge that this was the place where Randulph was taken,
upon the account of the Name given them by the Vulgar.
But there is no appearance of any House here fit for the re-
ception of such persons & the Camp itself seems to be of far
greater antiquity then Randulph s days. However it is certain
by the Author of Bruce^s Book and the History of Douglass,
that Randulph and his Company were surprised and taken
after a little skirmish upon the Water of Lyne but it is most
probable, that Newlands and not this was the place. And so
we put an end to Lyne at the Mill and Bridge.

The Water of Tairth next to be described, hath its begin-
ning at a place in the Parish of Linton, called the Threip
Moss sike and runs about 5 miles southeast before it fall into
Lyne a litle below the Drochell Castle. Upon it stand first IGS,
the new Mill of Dolphinton, Blyth and Knockknows and here
it receives the Mountburn, whereabout stand Langlandhill,
Stirkfeild, Moorbum of Skirline, the Mount, Lochurd,
Netherurd, Bryland & Harestaines. Further down on Tairth
is Scotstoun, Kirkurd belonging to the Chief of the Name of
Geddes, the Hophead, Ladyurd and FrosthoU.

The Water of Meddin rises likewise from the Mountain of

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Craigingar, and runs three miles into Tweddale, until! it come
near the Garelfoot, where the one half keeps the old Current
towards the West, & runs into Glide at Dunbarton; the
other half is brought off Artificially with a long Dam to the
East Mill of Dolphingtoun, and from thence descends by
Ingerston into the Water of Tairth, & with Tairth to Tweed
at Berwick : and this is talked of amongst the Vulgar as a
thing very remarkable. Hereabout stand Meddinhead,
Garrelfoot, & Ingerston. In the Rocks of this solitary Water,
grows plentifully the Chamosjierion Gesneriy taller and fisdrer
then in any Garden, which I beheld in the flower with a deal
of pleasure. It grows also in the Em Craig in the Parish of
Pennicook. Here is likewise Vaccinia rubra BuxifolUs so large
that it appears like the true Boxwood at a distance.

The Water of Manner is next to Tweed and Lyne of
most Note in this Countrey. It descends from a Hill called
Mannerhead, and runs with a strong & stony current of
eight miles to the Northeast. Upon it are first the House of
Mannerhead, Dollarburn, Kirkhop, Langhaugh, Posso belong-
ing to James Nasmith Chief of the Name and Falconer Royal.
Next is Glenrath, Mannerhall, the Castlehill, the town of
Manner, Hundelshope, Woodhouse, the Glack, Hallyards,
Caverhill which belonged to the Chief of the Name of Paterson,
Haswell Sykes, Barnes belonging to W™ Burnet and hath
been long in that Name. Of this Family was descended
Alexander the late Archbishop of St. Andrews. And here
Manner ends into Tweed at the Old Bridge.

The Water of Atleston begins at a place called Eingsyde,
I64, in the old Papers Peebles Water head, and runs about seven
miles southward dividing the Old and New Town of Peebles,
and there falls into Tweed above the Bridge. Here stands
the Over and Nether Fala, Fala Mill, the places called the
East and West Loch, the Shiplaw, the Nortbsheill, Skitrig,
Boreland, Harkhouse, Langcoat, Mansland, Burnhead, Hap-
toun, the Church and Town of Atleston, the old House and
Park of Dernhall, the Residence of the Lairds of Blackbarony
repaired by Sir Archibald Murray Knight and Baronet, who
lineally descending from a Race of powerfull Ancestors of that
Name, does now heritably represent that honourable Family.

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Of this stock are sprung several noble and flourishing-
Branches, particularly the Daughters of this House, have
been generally fortunate in their Marriages by contributing
to the honour of the Family a noble and numerous Alliance.
The Park here is an Ornament to the House, being well stored
with Forrest trees in a place where there are so few. Leaving
the Demhall We meet next with Over and Nether Stewartoun,
Hatton, and Hattonknow, Wormiston Pretschill, (here grows
the Meum like feilds of young Broom) Crigilty, Milkiston^
Windy lawes. Over and Nether Eidston,Winkston, here is store
of young Planting, Maillinsland, Fullage, Hathpole, Shell-
green, Hutchinfeild, Clappelhill, and the old Castle of
Smithfeild.

Bigger Water hath its rise from the Black Well hass a mile
& a half to the North of Bigger & runneth about 5 miles in
Tweddale before it enter Tweed. The first House upon this
Water, after it enters Tweddale is Threipland, then Harttree
Mains, Harttree House, the Mill, Howslack, Goseland, Knock,
Back of the Knock, Wintermoor, Candie, Skirline Mains ; the
Church, Town and House of Skirline a pleasant and fruitfull
place. It was an old and honourable Family of the Name of
Cockbum, in a short time since, it hath changed many 165.
Masters, and belongs now to Collonell James Douglass
Brother to the Lord Treasurer of Scotland. Here is a Fair
yearly. The Cleuch, Kirklawhill, the Church of Killbucho,
Bumetland, the Town of Eilbucho, long a Pendicle of
Dalkeith, but erected into a Burgh of Regality by John
Dickson of Harttree one of the Senatours of the Colledge of
Justice, whose Posterity possess this place & Harttree for
the time. Near Kilbucho Church upon the Bum stand
Mitchellhill, Blandevin and the Raw and following the Water,
Kilbucho Mains ft Callait, and here Bigger Water, receives
into it Broughton Bum, which descends from a place called
the Piked Stone, and runs some more then three miles before
it joyn with Bigger Water. Upon this Burn stand Broughton
Shiells, Claverhill, the Church and Town of Broughton, where
is a Fair yearly, Broughton Mains, Broughtonhall, the
Dwelling house of Sir W"* Murray of Stenhope Knight ft
Baronet. The Heires of this Family since their rise, have

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been very honourably matched. Sir David Murray having
married a daughter of the Earle of Wigton, Sir W*" Murray
his son a daughter of the Earle of Annandale, and the present
Heir, a daughter of the Earle of Eincarden. The Horse of
the Tweddale Militia joyned with those of Linlithgow shire
into a Troup is commanded by Stenhope younger. A little
below this, Bigger Water receiveth Broughton Bum, and
both run into Tweed a little below the Moorburn over against
the Town of Drumelzear.

Holms Water hath its spring from a place called the Nick
of Holms head, and runs about six miles towards the Elast,
and then mixes with Bigger Water about half a mile before
it joyn with Tweed. Here stand first Glenlude, then Glenkirk
an old Family of the Name of Porteous, Chappelgill, Glen-
kotho, Glenhighton, Cardonn belonging to William Murray
a Cadet of the house of Stenhope, Caldshoulders, Quarter,
Smelhop, Burnbrae, the Church & Kirkhouse of Glenholm,
Holms Mill, the Wrae, the Slack, Heuchbrae, Kootlehall, an
old Towerhouse belonging to Greddes of Kirkurd, the Rachan,
Whitsleid the Dwelling house of John Dickson grandchild to
166. the Lord Harttree. Upon the head of this fertile Water,
above Glenkirk is a mountain called Fiendsfell before men-
tioned, the Eagle hath nestled past memory of man. The
nest is builded upon a dreadfull Rock, where are to be seen
good store of wild Fowl, and Lambs in their season, to which
this creature is very terrible. The Countrey people calls it
the Ern, but it is undoubtedly the Chrysactos being full as
large as a Turkey, and will snatch up a lamb of six
weeks old.

Meggit Water belonging unto the Parish of Lyne, though
they be near a dozen of miles disjoyned, descends from the
head of old Talo, and runneth six miles before it meet with
St. Mary Loch. Upon it stand the Crammart on a place
called the Hunters Hill, the Craigrig, Siert, Shielliop and
Henderland once a great and old Family of the name of
Cockburn. Upon the stony Banks of this Water, grows the
Cochleria rotundi folia ; The tradition is that here were great
store of red Deer, and that the Lord Damly built the House
called the Crammart, upon the Hunters hill, for his sport,

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and there is a place called the Queens Chair to this day.
There is not one to be seen now, however that they have
been in this place, I am perswaded, in that there are many
of their horns to be seen in the Countrey peoples houses to
this day.

Upon the head of the River of Tweed stands first Tweed-
hopefoot, and here Tweed receives the Cor Water, whereon
stands Earlshaugh, and further down, it receives Frood fc
Talo Waters.

Frood ariseth from Hartfeild Hill, is four miles of length
and hath upon it Frood. Cartrop, then Hawkshaw a very
old family belonging to the Chief of the Name of Porteous.
This Estate, when entire, would have been 8000 merks yearly:
and yet in all the bounds or within 8 miles of the House, there
was never any sort of Corn sown to this hour.

Talo Water will be about miles of length and hath i^.

upon it Talo«

So following the course of Tweed we meet with Badlieu and
Glenbreck, both in Tweedmoor ; where there are Fallow Deer
to this day : I myself have seen half a dozen together : They
have been here in far greater plenty but the Fawns are by
degrees kilFd and destroyed by the Herds, against which the
£arle of Tweddale issued out a severe Act in his Court some
few years ago. We come next to Cockieland, the Beild,
Oliver Castle, whereof there is nothing now to be seen but
the place where it stood. It was the old Residence of the
Frissels, but now it is the first Title of the E. of Tweddale,
here being designed first in the Roll of the Shire Lord Oliver
Castle. Follows Tweedmoor Church, Powmood a very old
Family, which pretends to be Cheif of the Name of Hunter, the
Logan Stenhope the old House of Drumelzear, situate

upon a little Mount almost environed with the River and
appears a Peninsula, and here Tweed begins to run with some
pleasure, Next is the Town and Church of Drumelzear, and
here is the remarkable place where the Prophet Merlin is
said to have been buried at a Sauch bush near a Bum
called Powsayl. Where the Churchyard stood of old. The
Tradition is that he walked long up and down this part
of Tweed, and many strange stories are reported of him

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by the Vulgar but the old Prophecy following is most
memorable.

When Tweed and Pawsayl meet at Merlin's Grave^
Scotland and England shall one Monarch have.

Which accordingly fell out : for the same day Queen Elizabeth
dyed the River of Tweed did so extraordinarily overflow its
accustomed bounds that it meet with the Bum Powsayl at
Merlin^s Burial place, the like whereof had never been seeD
before, nor observed since. A little above the Church, upon
16S. a steep and craiggy Hil, is to be seen the Ruines of the
Tennis Castle the old strength and fortalice of the Twedies
of Drumelzear once a family of great power and pride, but
now decayed Root and Branches. The House was blown up
with powder by the Lord Fleeming whose Father Drumelzaj*
had slain in a bloudy Feud that continued betwixt the
Families. Some of the Rounds & Turrets of this strong
little Castle, are yet to be seen, and huge lumps 6f disjoynted
Walls. This Tweddie of Drumelzear had great interest &
following in this Countrey, especially about the River of
Tweed as his surname imports.

A further Description of the several Parishes within the
Presbytery of PEEBLES and how they are bounded,

Lintoun Parish lyes upon the head of the Water of Lyne
and is the most northern place of Tweddale. It marches
with Caldermoor, the head of North Esk and the Parish of
Pennicook to the North and North East ; with Dunsyre &
Dolphingtoun in Clidesdale to the West, Ac with the Newlands
and some part of Kirkurd Parish to the South & East. It is
watered with PoliintoriF, but mainly with the Water of Lyne,
which* runs directly through the middle of the Parish to that
of Newlands.

The Newlands Parish lyes to the southeast of Lintoun and
is bounded with Kirkurd on the southwest, with Lyne and
Athelstoun to the south & east; and with the Parish of
Pennycook towards the North. It lyes upon the Water of
Lyne.

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The Parish of Kirkurd is bounded with Broughtoun to the
south west, with Skirline fc Dolphintoun to the West 9c
Northwest, with Lyntoun, Newlands & Lyne to the Northeast
and with Stobo to the south. It lyes upon the Water of
Tairth.

The Parish of Lyne is bounded with Newlands to the North ;
with Stobo & Kirkurd to the south & west, with Athelstoun &
Peebles to the East. Its main Water is Line.

The Parish of Peebels borders with the Parishes of Lyne, 169.
Manner, Athelstoun and Innerleithan. It lyes upon Tweed
River.

The Parish of Athektoun is bounded on the North with
the Parishes of Pennicook and Temple in Midlothian, Inner-
leithan upon the East, with Newlands, Lyne and Peebles on
the West and South. It lyes upon the Water of Athelstoun.

The Parish of Innerleithan lyes furthest East of any Parish
in Tweddale, and borders with Athelstoun, Peebles, Traquair,
and with the Parishes of Galascheills in the Forrest and
Temple in MidLothian. It lyes upon Leithan Water.

The Parish of Traquair lyes furthest south of any Parish in
Tweddale. It is bounded on the North and East with the
Parishes of Innerleithan and Yaro, upon the South with the
Parish of Yaro, in the Southwest and West, with Meggat and
' the Parish of Manner. It lyes upon the Waters of Tweed
and Quair.

The Parish of Manner is bounded upon the East with the
Parish of Peebles, upon the North and West with the Parishes
of Stobo, Dawiek, and Drumelzear and upon the south
Traquair & Meggat. It lyes upon the Water of Manner.

The Parish of Dawiek is bounded with the River of Tweed
and the Parish of Stobo to the North, with the Parish of
Manner on the East; with Drumelzear and Broughtoun on
the West and South. It lyes upon the River of Tweed.

The Parish of Drumelzear is bounded with the Parishes of
Dawiek and Stobo as is expressed, and with the Parishes of
Tweedmoor and Glenholm to the South, Southwest, and West.
It lyes also upon Tweed.

The Parish of Stobo borders with the Parishes of Lyne,
Kirkurd, Dawiek, Drumelzear as said is, and the Parish of

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Broughtoun to the West. It is watered with the River of
Tweed.

The Parish of Broughtoun is bounded on the Northeast
with the Parishes of Kirkurd and Stobo, and the Parish of
Glenholm to the south & West. It lyes upon Bigger Water.
i'^0. The Parish of Glenholm is bounded with Stobo, Eilbucho,
Broughton and Drumelzear upon the North and East, with
Tweedmoor to the South, and with the Parish of Coulter in
Clidesdale to the West. It lyes upon the Water of Holm.

The Parish of Tweedmoor is bounded with the Parishes of
Drumelzear and Glenholm on the east and North with
Meggathead & the Parish of Moffat in Annandale on the
south, and with the Parish of Coulter in Clidesdale on the
Northwest. It lyes upon the River of Tweed.

The Parish of Kilbucho is bounded with the Parishes of
Broughtoun and Glenholm to the Northeast and South, and
with the Parish of Biggar in Clidesdale on the West. It
lyes upon BiggarWater.

The Parish of Skirline is bounded with the Parishes of
Dolphingtoun in Clidesdale, Kirkurd and Broughtoun on the
Northeast & south and with Biggar & Walstoun in Clidesdale
to the West & Northwest.

Information concerning TEVIOTDALE otherwise called
the Shire of ROXBURGH.

The Shire of Teviotdale is one of the three bordering shires
which frontires England. The length of it is from Reddin-
bum on the east to Annandale on the West, which will be
about 30 miles, comprehending Lidesdale, Eusdale, and
Eskdale. The breadth of it will be from the Border to the
Blew Cairn in Lauder moor about 14 or 15 miles.

This Shire receives its denomination either from the River
of Teviot, or from the ancient Burgh thereof called Roxburgh
which lay at the mouth of Teviot where it runs into Tweed,
upon the head of the which town, stood that strong and great
Castle, which was one of the chief Castles that belonged to
the King of Scotland. It was situate betwixt Teviot ic
171. Tweed and had vaults under ground that went to both

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these Rivers and Bridges over botli. It was of old called the
Castle of Marchmonth, as Stirlin Castle was called Wester
Snodown, whence two of our Heraulds receive their denomina-
tion, to this day being called Marchmonth & Snodoun Heralds.
It was afterward called from the Town, the Castle of Roxburgh.
It was taken 9c garisonM by the English in the dayes of K.
James the Second and retaken by the Scots, at which Siege,
that noble Prince was killed by the splinter of a Cannon.
The place is yet called the Kings Haugh where he died, upon
which disaster the Castle was demolished, the Bridge cut, and
the Town ruinated, and the Royalty thereof transmitted to
the Town of Jedward, which was an Abbacy and was then
erected to be the Chief Burgh Royal of the Shire, and was
thereafter called Jedburgh, & has remained ever since a very
loyal Town, and given testimonies thereof upon all occasions.

As for the nature of the Countrey, it is extraordinary well
mixed both for Grass and Corn, and a very fine soil, and
watered with abundance of little Rivulets besides Teviot and
Tweed. As for the names of them, they are in every Mapp,
and the surveyer will take up the distances and the way of
their lying fc disgorging themselves into Teviot. The
Valley grounds abound with Com, & the high grounds are
furnished with excellent Grass and produce great store of
Cattel, of all kinds, and of the best brood in Scotland both
for largeness and goodness. And for the Grain, it is short of
few Shires in Scotland ; and it has been known by the Custom
Bills that they have transported to NewCastle above 10,000
load of Com in the year, besides what was consumed within
the Countrey and carried to Lothian.

There was abundance of Woods here, which are now J7S
altogether cut down and decayed for want of haining. There
is no place named by any Forrest within this Shire, except
Jedward Forrest, belonging to the Marquess of Douglass.

As for Parks, there is but few of old, except Branksholm
which is Buccleuch^s Chief House and Helliden which belongs
to Roxburgh & Faimihirst Park which belongs to the Lord
Jedburgh and the Park of Ancram. There are diverse in-
closures made for accommodation about severall Houses, which
scarcely deserve the name of Parks.

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There is abundance both of freestone and Limestone, but
want of Coal, although there be great probability for it

As for ancient Monuments, there are but few, except
Abbacies, Monasteries, and other Religious Houses. Whereof
there are more here then in any other Shire in Scotland : for
there are four Abbacies not above six or eight miles distant
from other viz. Jedburgh, Melross, Dryburgh & Kelso. And
although Dryburgh now stands within the Shire of Berwick,
it was of old within the bounds of Teviotdale. And besides
these great Abbacies there were three Convents of Friers ; one
of Dominicans at Jedburgh whereof the Lairds of Faimihirst
were Patrons, another of Franciscans, at old Roxburgh ; and
the third of Red Friers at Nether Ancram. Besides these
there was a grand Hospitall called Maison de Dieu, which
stands upon the south side of Teviot a little above Roxburgh.
There is another Hospital for Lepers at the mouth of the
Water of Rule called Rule Hospital; & an Hospital beside
Ancram. The Abbacies, Convents & Hospital Lands take
up a great part of this Shire.

As for the Secular Lands, they were divided amongst the
great men of the Kingdom, so that this Shire was singular :
for it never had any Provincial Lord or Earle, as other places
27S. had such as the three Lothians and Mers, which were under
the Government & Jurisdiction of the Earle of March ; & the
other Shires of Scotland gave Titles of Honour to their
Provincial Lords or Earles thereof; as appeal's by the several
Writs and Charters of Lands. For the Barony of Cavers
Douglass did belong to the Marrs Earles of Man*; which
Barony fell into the Douglasses ; when Lady Isabell Douglass
became Heiress of that Earldom & became the Provision of a
Branch of that Family who have been Sherifs of this Shire for
a long time till of late. The Barony of Hawick belonged to
the Earles of Buchan ; the lands of Hassinden & Hassinden-
bank belonged to the Earles of Kincardin ; the Barony of
Minto to the Earles of Lennox, the lands of Whitslade and
Nisbets to the Lord Erskine, the lands of Eckfoord and
Caverton to the Earles of Orkney-Sinclair; the lands of
Lintoun to the Lord Somervale ; the lands of Plenderleith to
the Lord Saltoun ; the lands of Loch Tower to the Hepbums

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Earles of Bothwell ; the lands of Qxenham to the Lord Colvill ;
the lands of Cesfoord to the Lord Oliphant and so forth.
Which has been done to engage them to defend the border.

The Gentries I^ands were for the most part Parts & Pendicles
of thir Baronies, and so of old held of these great Lords
untill some of these Lords were forfeited, or otherwise extin-
guished whereupon diverse Gentlemen got their lands erected
into Baronies, and most of these alterations were in the days
of K. Robert the first

There are some Vestiges of the Roman Incampings, and a
street that goes from the Border viz. from Hownam to Tweed
called the Roman Causey, commonly called by the vulgar the
rugged Causey.

As for any Battels or memorable Actions, there have been
several here, betwixt the Scots & English, in defence of the
border which were so many that it is too large here to insert
them, the most considerable whereof you will find in History. 174.

As for the Government & Customes of the Countrey, they
had a SheriiF as other Shires had : but his Power was much
eclipsed by an Ofiice and Jurisdiction, which was here called
the Warden Office, who was a Person of great Command and
Power, being the King'^s Lieutenant and in time of War, exer-
cised Martial Law ; and the Sheriff & all the Shire of whatso-
ever Quality were bound to attend him & to be answerable to
his Court. He might have garisoned any manfs House he
thought fit in defence of the Countrey. He with the consent
of the Freeholders of his Wardenry made several Laws for
the Government of the Border; and some Crimes he made
Treason, which was not Treason by the Common Law. He
was the Kings Chief Justice in Criminals within his Jurisdic-
tion, and had all the Escheats and Confiscations of Delinquents.
The Scots and English Wardens had upon the Border their
moneth Meetings which were called their days of Truce ; to
redress Disorders; and the two Wardens made Laws joyntly
for the Government of the Border, whereby the Border Laws
differ from all the Laws both of Scotland and England.

The Borders of Scotland were divided into three Wardenries
but England only into two. The three Wardenries of Scot-
land were first the ShirifFdom of Berwick, which was called the

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East Ward ; the Middle Ward, which contains Teviotdale ;
and the Wester Ward, which containeth Nidesdale and
Annandale. As for the Middle Ward, the E» of Roxburgh^'s
Predecessours and the Lord Jedburgh have kept it these 200
years, untill it was extinguished by K. James his being King
of England, and neither Buccleuch nor any other Family that
lived in Teviotdale were Wardens, but them. Of the East
175. Ward the Lord Hume was always Warden since the decay of
the Earles of Douglass. The Lords of Maxwell have been
Wardens of the Wester Ward, upon whose mines the Maxwells
rose, and sometimes the Lairds of Johnston were Wardens.

As for the humors of the people, they were both strong
and warlike, as being inured to War, and daily Incursions :
and the most part of the Heritours of the Countrey gave out
all their Lands to their Tenants for Military attendance upon
Rentals and reserved only some few manses for their own
sustenance, which were laboured by their Tenants besides
their Service. They payed an entry, a Herauld and a smal
rental duty : for there were no Rents raised here that were
considerable till King James went into England, yea along all
the Border.

There is no free Burgh in all this Countrey but the Burgh
of Jedburgh, though several Burghs of Barony* As for
Regalities & Burghs thereof, there are only three in this
Shire viz. the Regality of Jedward Forrest, the Regality of
Hawick, and the Regality of Melross.

There is no Stewartry or Raillery here : the Church lands
had of old Jus Regale, and they made the men of power
within the shire their Bail lies, so that the Lairds of Buccleuch
were Baillies to the Abbots of Melross, the Lairds of Faimi-
hirst, now Lords Jedburgh, were Baillies to the Abbots of
Jedburgh, the Lairds of Cesfoord, now Earles of Roxburgh
were Baillies to the Abbots of Kelso, and the Lords of Hume
were Baillies to the Abbots of Dryburgh.

As for ancient seats of noble Families, here are none, for
they had their seats elsewhere.

Some Families here attained to the honour of Peerage in

the days of K. James the 6^, who did nobilitate the Lairds of

ne. Cesfoord, Fairnihirst and Buccleuch ; Cesfoord to the Title of

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Lord Roxburgh being the ancient chief Town, and Faimihirst
to the Title of Lord Jedburgh being the present chief Town
of the Shire whereof they have been always Provests, and
Buccleuch kept his old Title. And for the consideration of
their Advancement, it is not to be doubted ; for they and
their Predecessors have stoutly defended the Border and lost
their lives in defence of their King and Kingdom. Besides of
late Sir Thomas Ker of Faimihirst, who was both Warden of
the Midle March and Provest of Jedburgh father to Andrew
Lord Jeburgh did suffer banishment and forfeiture fourteen
years for maintaining the Rights of the Crown in the days of
Q. Mary. As for the Lord Ancram his family his Predecessour
was a Brother of Faimihirst : And Sir Robert Ker of Ancram,
who was a gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to K. Charles the
first, was advanced for his service done to that King at his
Coronation, to the dignity of Earle of Ancram. As for the
Lord Cranstoun^s Family, which is ancient, I doubt not but it
will be mentioned among the families in Lothian, because his
Residence and Seat was there. He was advanced by K. James
6 to the Dignity of a Lord Baron for his good service done in
the border, when he was Lieutenant to the E. of Dumbar,
who was made Captain of the Guard, when K. James went to
England, which Guard was erected at that time, when the
Warden Office ceased. And the last Captain of the Guard
was Andrew Master of Jedburgh, which Office called the Blew
Benders, died with him in anno 1628 and was never again,
revived till the Restauration of King Charls the Second.

As for the Gentry there are several ancient Families here,
as you will find in most places of Scotland, which were need-
less and too long here to mention, seeing you have the help of
My Lord Advocators Book which deduces the Genealogies of
the families of the whole Kingdom, that are worth the
noticing.

As for the Commands of the Militia, they are various and m.
change often. You will get them from the Clerks of the
Council, as their printed Acts bear.

Relation by Doctor Cranstoun.

The Lord Cranstoun is Coroner of this Shire of Roxburgh,
since K. James the Sixth, and guards the Criminal Courts

VOL. III. L

162 TEVIOTDALE— OLD INSCRIPTION

there. His servants keep the Bar, for which he hath so much
of every Pannel, and so much of each confiscate.

There were of the Name of Cranston in the Mers, Corsby,
Glen, Boll, Moriston, Mains, Harlaw ; and in Lothian Crans-
toun of that Ilk ; and Skeitsbush in East Lothian, in the
Mers, Birkenside or Cranston lands.

The considerable Gentry in Teviotdale on the east part are
Stitchell Pringle, Newton Don, Ednam Edminston, Green-
head Eer, Chatto Ker, Frogton Eer, Maccairston M^Dougal,
Merton Sir Wm Scot, Raeburn Scot, Littledean Eer, Faimiton
Rutherfoord, Ancram Scot, E. Roxburgh Eer, L. Jedburgh
Eer, E. Lothian Eer, L. Rutherfoord of that Ilk ; On the
west end E. of Tarres Scot, Grubbet Bennet, Stobs Eliot near
Hawick, Cavers Douglass, Cavers Eer, Laird Riddle of that
Ilk, BonJedward Douglass, Mangerton Scot, Govenberry
Scot, Edgerton Rutherfoord, Minto W. Riddle, Cherrytrees
Eer, Newton Eer, Lord Cranston in Crailing, Marquess of
Douglass Jedward Forrest, Thirlstone Scot, Sinton Soot,
Clifton Pringle, Whitsleid Scot, Gladstanes of that Ilk, Lang-
lands of that Ilk, Eachaw Scot, Rynoldburn Scot, Morislaw
Halyburton, Ellisheuch, Oslahill Scot, Chesters Bennet,
Abbotrule Eer, Hadden Murray, Woolie Eliot, Lariston
Eliot, Gaudilands Scot, Well Scot, Langshaw Scot, Hilslope
Cairncorse Buckholm Pringle.

m, OLD INSCRIPTION upon the lintel of a door in the

Abb AC V of Melross which I got read some 7 years
ago by the help of an old Schoolmaster.

John Murrow sometime callit was I

And born in Parish certainly

And had the chairge of the Maison Wark

Of Melross and of Glasgow kirk

Of Niddisdale and Galloway

Of Paisly and of Orkney too.

I pray to God and Mary baitb

To keep us all frae shame and Skaith.

I observed in many places betwixt Selkirk and Melross that
the Countrey-people foddered their Cattell in the night time

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with the Petasites which is here in great abundance. The
Cattel eat it willingly and with good success.

Description of the SHERIFFDOM of SEL-
KIRK or ETRICK FOREST.

The Sheriffdom of Selkirk or Etrick Forrest is bounded on
the North pairtly by Tweddale toward the West end of it and
pairtly by the Regality of the Stow, which is within the Juris-
diction of MidLothian ; on the East and South it is bounded
by Teviotdale, and on the West partly by Teviotdale & partly
by Annandale.

The Diameter of the Shire is about sixteen miles every way,
for the body of the Shire is very nigh quadrangular, except
some few parts which run farther out, and are within the
neighbouring shires. As toward the South West, Philiphauch
runneth in within the Shire of Teviotdale and toward the
North West, Fallenburn betwix Quair and Tweed and Birks a
little distance southward from it, run in within the Shire of
Tweddale and are in regard of their situation disjoyned from
the body of the Shire of Selkirk.

This Shire is watered with several Rivers abounding with
variety of Fishes.

On the Northeast part it is watered with the River Tweed 179.
which River hath its rise and springs from exceeding high
Mountains dividing Tweddale, Clidesdale and Annandale,
out of which flow these three great Rivers Tweed, Glide
and Annand. Tweed running eastward dischargeth itself
into the east sea at Berwick ; Clide running westward
dischargeth itself into the West sea at Dumbarton; and
Annand running southward, dischargeth itself into an Arm of
the sea near Sul way- Sands not far from Carlisle. These
Mountains, whence these three Rivers spring are so high, that
from the top of them, both the East Sea Bank and the West
Sea Bank are discernable. This River of Tweed having its
rise as said is, running with a swift stream through the Shire
of Tweddale, to which it giveth its name, and passing by the
Burgh of Peebles and by Traquair, it entereth the Shire of
Selkirk or Etrick Forrest a little above the Elibank, and from

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thence it is well busked with Woods on both sides of the
River, untill it hath run through this Shire & entered
Teviotdale a mile above the Town and Abbey of Melross.

And though the Countrey be Mouutanous, yet about the
River it is well replenished with commodious Villages Sc con-
siderable Gentlemens dwelling houses. On the southside it
hath Shutinglies a mile above the place of Traquair to the
Southwest; Flora, Scrogbank near to Elibank westward, Eli-
bank a dwelling house of the Lord Elibank, Eshisteill, a
Gentlemans Dwelling. Williamhope a mile south from
Ashisteill, the Peill, the Yair a comely House & ane Gentle-
man^s Dwelling Sunderlandhall a Gentlemans Dwelling.

About the Elibank, this Shire extendeth itself over tlie
River and over a large tract of green Hills northward unto the
Water of Gala comprehending betwixt that Water and the
River Tweed many Villages and- Grentlemens Houses; as
Holilie, Thomilie, Whitebank a Gentlemans Dwelling ; Black-
180. hauch, Cadenlie, Faimilie a Gentlemans Dwelling, the Rink,
Boleside, Torwoodlie a large House and Gentlemans Dwelling,
Megillpots half a mile west from Blindlie, Galasheills a Gentle-
mans House with a pleasant little Town having a weekly
mercat and several Fairs in the year. Mosilie, Stockbridge,
Nether barns where the confluence of Gala and Tweed ter-
minates, the farthest east point of the Shire.

The next Waters are Yaro and Etrick, both which have
ther rise out of the hills that divide Annandale from the
Sherifdom of Selkirk and they run like two parallel lines,
still keeping three miles distance one from another, untill
they joyn about a mile to the West of Selkirk ; and thence
running in one stream they mingle themselves about two
miles to the east of Selkirk with the River Tweed. Both
these Waters, especially above their confluence, are richly
furnished with plenty of pleasant Woods, and several Villages
fc Gentlemens Dwellings.

The Water of Yaro running with a small stream for the
space of two or three miles, entereth one of these Lochs called
St Mary Lochs, and from thence runneth into the other Loch
by a little narrow stream not being 50 paces long: for no
farther are these two Lochs distant one from another : The

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circumference of the two Lochs will be above six or seven
miles. They abound with diverse kinds of fishes as Trouts,
£els, Pearches & Pikes of a greater then are to be found
elswhere, some of them being five or six quarters in length.
There is also taken in thir Lochs a little Fish called by the
Countrey people Red waimbs. It is about the bigness of an
Herring, and the belly of it wholly red. It is only to be found
about Michaelmass and that only in the little stream that
runneth betwixt the two Lochs but not seen at any other
time or in any other part of the Lochs. Yet at that season
the Countrey people with Plaids sewed together like a net
have take such store of them, that they carried them home & 181,
salted them up in Vessels for the food of their families. These
two Lochs having received the Water of Yaro, by a little small
stream toward the West, dismiss it again toward the East, with
a much larger stream, by reason of the accession of the Water
of Meggat, that runneth into the eastmost of these Lochs.

This Water being past the Lochs, hath on either side many
Villages and Gentlemens Houses. On the left hand towards
the North, it hath Kirkstead half a mile distant from the
Nether Loch northward, where sometimes the Kirk of Yaro
or St. Mary Kirk of the Lochs did stand though now it be
transplanted five miles farther down the Water, Dry hope
sometimes a Gentlemans Dwelling ; Blackhouse and Douglass-
Craig betwixt Blackhouse and the Water of Yaro standing
upon Douglassbum, a place much haunted by the Earles of
Douglass when they came to take sport in the Woods of this
Forest; Montbernger, Catslack, Wheithope, Blackgrain a
mile to the Northwest of Wheithope ; Deuchar a Gentlemans
House having a stone bridge over the Water of Yaro close by
it ; and the Kirk of Yaro a very little space higher on the
Water of Tinneis; Lewingshope hard upon the East of
Tinnies; Hangingshaw a dwelling house of the Lairds of
Philiphauch, sometimes Heritable Sherifi^s of the Forrest;
Braidmeadows a Gentlemans House, Foulsheils, Hairhead,
beneath which about a mile, this Water of Yaro dischargeth
itself into the Water of Etrick. And a little beneath the
Confluence is Philiphauch. This place is famous for a Battel
fought near to it in Septr 1645. Sunderland a long mile

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beneath Philiphauch, beneath which Etrick and Yaro running
in one stream enter Tweed.

This Water of Yaro hath on the right hand towards the
south at the meeting of the two Lochs abovementioned and a
little southward Corscleuch a mile south from Bourhope,
Bourhope, Eltrive a mile southwest from Eldinghope, Easter
and Wester Eldinghope, Sundhope a Grentleman'^s Dwellings
I8t. Wester and Easter Kershopes, Fastheuch, Newwark a strong
Castle and sometimes a Dwelling of the Earles of Buccleuch
which lyes higher and closer upon the Water then Bowhill^
the said Bowhill a Grentleman's House.

The Water of Etrick having its rise, as is above specified,
hath on the left hand northward Potburn, Braidgairhill,
Kirkhope, Brokupridge Scabcleuch, Etrick kirk, Ramescleuch
half a mile under the Kirk of Etrick, Thirlstane sometime the
Dwelling of the Lairds of Thirlstane. Tussilaw a Grentle-
man''s Dwelling, Corslie betwixt Tussilaw and Newburgh,
and Inchbonie, Newburgh sometime a Gentleman''s Dwelling,
Gilminscleuch a Gentleman's Dwelling, Singlie, Newhouse,
Kirkhope sometimes a Dwelling of the Lairds of Harden,
about which is the largest Wood in all the Forrest, and near
to which is a Stone Bridge over the Water of Etrick, Falds-
hope, Carterhauch betwixt Faldshope and the Confluence of
Etrick and Yaro.

This Water of Etrick hath on the right hand southward
Over and Nether Faups, Shorthope, Etrickhouse, M idshope a
mile under Etrickhouse toward the southeast, Deephope
standing on the East of the Water of Tima, near to the place,
where it entereth into Etrick, Gemmelscleuch, Etrickside,
Anelshope southward of which, above a mile stand Wester
and Easter Buccleuchs, from which the Earles of Buccleuch
have their Title, eastward from which standeth Bellanden
about a mile to the northwest of Alenioor, which was the
slogan of the name of Scot, Which was a custome when the
Chief of the name, at general or public Meetings, would call
his friends about him. Then near to the foot of Rankleburn,
stands Cacrabank at a little distance from the Water of Etrick,
then Wester and Easter Dalorrens, Hindhope, to the south of
which ly Dodhead, and Redfordgreen. Then near to the

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Water Ijr Nether Baillielie, and Helmbum; southward of
which a mile from the Water ly the Schawes, and Over
Baillielie half a mile to the East of the Schawes. Near to the
Water a litle under the Bridge lyes Howfoord, Whittelbrae,
HottroTburA, Inner Huntlie, southward of which about two.
miles lyes Outer Huntlie, having the Fannes a little West-
ward from it. Then close upon the Water lyes Oakwood a
Dw'elling house of the Lairds of Harden weel garnished with 18J.
large and pleasant Woods, then Easter Oakwood and the
Myln, to the south of which ly Hartwoodmyres, and a mile
eastward from it Midlestead, and at the Confluence of Etrick
and Yaro, Houden, beneath which is the town of Selkirk a
Burgh Royall, having a Weekly Mercat & many Fairs every
year, being the Head-Biurgh of the Shire, and the seat both of
the SherifTand Commissary Courts, a populous Town, with all
sorts of Tradesmen, especially Cordiners. Near to the South-
west end of this Town, stands the Haining a Gentleman^
Dwelling, having a large Loch hard by it, and severall Parks
about it, where there is an excellent brood of Horses, Neat
and Sheep. Southward of this is Hartwoodbum. A litle
Bum called the Schawburn, lying a little to the East of
Selkirk doth terminate the Shire on the Soutside of Etrick.

As for the other parts of this shire lying southward, they
are scattered here and there upon the Water of Ale and the
Water of Borthwick ; several parts of Teviotdale interveening,
and thereby wholly cut off from any contiguity with any
other part of this Shire. The Water of Ale hath its rise
from Alemoor Loch, a large Loch and well replenished with
diverse sorts of fishes, having on the lefthand hard by the
Ijoch the Steed or Village of Alemoor, under which stands
Whitslaid a Gentleman ^s Dwelling commodiously situate, and
a large Park by it. To the Northeast thereof lies Tod ridge a
Gentleman^s Dwelling pleasantly situate and Langhope half-a
mile to the Northwest of Todridge, a Grentleman's Dwelling.
There is no more on the north side of the Water of Ale, that
belongs to this Shire. Only upon the southside of the Water,
three miles beneath Whitslaid stands the House of South
Sintoun a Gentleman''s Dwelling pleasantly situated, with a
Village near unto it, called the Langtoun, under which toward

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the Water ii a M yln belonging to the Gentleman, and above
it, a Place called the Parkhead. Thir lands belonging to
Sintoun are so surrounded with Teviotdale, that they touch
upon no part of the Forrest.
184. Upon the Water of Borthwick, which has its rise from
Craikmoor, there are some few Steeds belonging to this Shire,
not lying contiguous one with another, but interrupted here
and there by parts of Teviotdale. Upon the Norside of this
Water lyes Craik.

Howcleuch, Robertoun, And upon the Southside of this
Water lyes Philip a mile from Horsecoats southward, the
farthest southwest part of the Shire a: wholly cut off from the
rest by interveening parts of Teviotdale.

The people inhabiting this Shire are generally of strong
and robust bodies, in regard the Countrey is Mountanous,
and necessitates them to travel much in attendance of their
Cattel, and their Diet sober and frugal. They are ingenous,
and hate fraud & deceit ; Theft or Robbery are not heard
among them, and very rarely a Ly to be heard in any of thdr
mouths, except among them of the baser sort Their way of
Living is more by pasture of Cattel then by tillage of the
ground, though upon the Plains by the Waters there is a very
great increase of Com.

The Commodities this Shire affords, are great store of
Butter and Cheese of the finest sort for tast and sweetness,
inferiour to none that is to be found any where else, and that
in such plenty, that many parts about it furnished by it. It
affordeth also store of Neath ides and sheep skins and great
plenty of Wool, which is carried to forreign Nations, so that
the cold eastern Countreys bless this happy soil being warmed
with the fleeces of their sheep. It affordeth also store of Neat
and Sheep, which are sold and carried partly to the Northern
parts of Scotland, but most what into England, the Custom
whereof at the Border, is no small increase to His Majesties
Revenue. It affords also great plenty of well spun Worset, which
is sold and carried for the most part unto forreign Nations.

This Shire was called the Forrest, because it was wholly
covered with Woods, except the Tops of the Mountains which
are covered with Heath which is very profitable for sheep both

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for food, and shelter in the time of snows or stormy weather.
The Woods were replenished with variety of wild Beasts,
i^hither the Kings of Scotland frequently resorted for sport in 186.
hunting Harts, Hinds and Fallow Deer with other sorts of
Wild Beasts. But the Woods being now decayed much, the
Wild Beasts are for the most part, also destroyed. And
though this whole Shire was almost covered with trees, as it
had been one continued Wood, yet is it now for the most
part denuded of that beautifull Covering, except it be the
space of four or five miles upwards from the mouths and Con-
fluence of the respective Rivers and Waters that run through
it, which places remain yet well furnished with pleasant and
profitable Woods, especially for building. The tops of the
Mountains have good store of Moor Fowls, and in some places,
the black Cock and gray Hen, which is a large and delicate
<kind of fowl.

Neither is this Shire judged to be destitute of Metals, for
at Kershope foregainst the Kirk of Yaro, there is a little
strand, which after a speat of rain, frequently casteth out
many peices of lead, which are found by Countrey people
among the sand.

There are also Mineral Waters here: for a little above
Philiphauch there is a Well, which in regard to its smell, tast
and operation in purging, and other effects, as colouring of
money laid into it, differeth little or nothing from the Well,
of Moffet in Annandale so much frequented.

Memokandum.

To place Mincemoor a mile and a half to the southwest of
Traquair.

Item that the Circumference of the Shire includes South
Sintoun.

That the Bounds of the Shire from the North to the South
is too much straitned.

A Description of BERWICKSHIRE or
the MERS. im.

Berwickshire or the Mers is the Southeast Shire of Scotland

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bordering with Berwick and Northumberland toward the sea
coast ; being divided from Berwick by the Bound-rode, fix>in
Northumberland by the River Tweed. Berwick and the Mer»
stand both on the Northside of Tweed, Northumberland on
the South. Tweed divides the Mers and Northumberland
about eight miles, and then upward to Redpeth Tweed divides
betwixt Teviotdale, and the Mers about ten miles.

Tweed is one of those three Rivers that rise out of the
same tract of Hills, one whereof to wit. Glide runs west
towards Dumbarton, Annand South toward Sulway Sands, and
the third Tweed toward Berwick. It is of a swift course^
environed with hills, runs through Tweddale, Forrest and
Teviotdale, is the March ^twixt England and Scotland*
Before it goes to the Ocean, its Current is above 50 miles. It
hath only at present two Bridges, one at Peebles of five
arches, and another at Berwick of fifteen. It hath had one at
Melross, the Pillars whereof yet stand, and another is intended
to be built at Kelso.

It is called Berwickshire, because the Town of Berwick of
old was the chief Burgh thereof, but given away thereafter by
K. James the 8** upon Capitulation for relief of Alexander
Duke of Albany his Brother, who was Prisoner in England.
It is called Mers or March, because it divides the one Kingdom
from the other, for the Stewartry of March is still in the
Shire.

The Shire is divided in three parts, Lauderdale, Lammer-
moor and Mers.

Lauderdale or the Forrest of Lauder, is a tract of ground
lying on each side of the Water of Leider, abounding with
pleasant Haughs, green Hills and some Woods, plentifull
both of Pasturages and of Corns.
W, Lammer-moor is a great tract of hills abounding with moss
and moor on the Northside of the shire above sixteen miles of
length and six at least of breadth, the west end whereof
belongs for the space of four miles to Lauderdale, the rest of
it eastwards all most equally parted betwixt East Lothian and
Mers, the march tending sometimes to the one shire, and
sometimes to the other ; a ground excellent for pasturage in
the summer time, abounding with Moor fowls, Patridges,

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Plovers green and gray, much frequented with the nobility
and Grentiy, who take pleasure in Hawking and setting Dogs.
This tract of ground with some Towns and Parishes at the .
foot of these Hills, or amongst them are termed Laknmer
Moor frae Lammer law a high Mountain, the Victuals that
grow there, being estimate yearly to a lower rate in the fiers
of the year. This tract of Hills resembles a high Rampart
cast up to defend the low fruitfiill Valley ground of the Mers
from the tempestuous storms & cold nipping blasts that come
from the North.

The Mers is a pleasant lowlying ground plentifull with all
kind of grain, and may be truly termed the garden of Scotland,
lying deliciously upon the northside of the River, objected to
Uie influence of the sun, whereby its naturally fertile soil is
made to abound with Oats, Barley, Wheat, Pease, and all sorts
of grain and fruits, with great abundance of hay, being
guarded, as said is, from tempestous storms, whereunto other
shires are lyable, especially the Lothians.

This Shire might have been termed the Yorkshire of the
Nation if the Division betwixt the two Kingdoms, before they
were united under one Soveraign, and the frequent excursions
and incursions occasioned thereby had not only hindered the
Inhabitants from Policy and Planting the ornament of a
Dwelling but necessitate them to choose rising grounds and to
build thereon Vaults and Castles with dark Lights for strength
and resistance rather than commodious and pleasant Dwellings 188.
and where they wanted these grounds to mantle about their
Houses with Rampires and high Walls, which made them
look rather like Prisons then Palaces. But this Defect is
exceedingly helped by the spirit of building which has much
abounded in these later times, as shall be shewed as we go
along in the description.

This Shire is about twenty miles in length from Lambertoun
to Redpath, on the southside, and from Cockburnspath to
Seeing-hill Kirk on the Northside; and the breadth thereof is
about fourteen miles frae Redpath to South Soutray bum on
the West end, and from Lambertoun to Berwick Bum on the
East end, and from Birdgame to Crainshawes in the middle of
the Shire.

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If Tradition be to be trusted, these four Parishes
M^Kairstone, Smaleholm, Stitchell and Ednam on the north-
side of Tweed lying in the bosom of the Mers, formerly
pertained to Berwickshire, ft: were given off for defending the
Castle of Roxburgh, which was the Chief Garison and Strength
in these times before the Union of the Kingdoms for Mertoun
lyes besouth Smaleholm and Nenthom besouth Stitchell,
which are still in the M ers.

From Redpath upon the Westhand the March of the Mers,
excluding Lauderdale, goes up the eastside of Leider Water
to Bownd My In, which stands upon the Water of Bowndricfa,
where it enters into Leider ; for Bowndtoun, Bownd Myln and
Bowndrich are so called from bounding the Mers on the West
hand as the Boundrode does on the East. And this Bound-
rich above this is called Boundupbum, or Bnmtupbum, which
rises on the Northside of the Flassedges, and divides the
Merse from Lauderdale for the space of five miles. It is to
be observed if Lauderdale should be secluded from the Mers,
there should not be one Burgh within the whole Shire.

Lauderdale being included, the March on the Westside
crosses Leider about half a mile above Earlestoun ; for Lauder
189. Parish which is the Westmost Parish of the Shire, lyes equally
on both sides of the Water, bounding on the Westhand with
Melross-land, which is a part of Teviotdale, and then with the
Stow Parish, which is a part of MidLothian. Above the
I'arish of Lauder, is the Parish of Seeinghill Kirk, which
marches both with the Stow Parish and Fala ft: thereafter the
March goes in by Lammer law and through the middle of
l^mmer moor, till ye come to Berwick Bum, which runs
besouth Dunglass into the Pees, and then into the Ocean, the
Postmaster his House being the northmost House of the
Shire.

The Judicatories in this Shire, are first the Sheriff Court,
which sits at Duns. Secondly the Commissariot which sits at
Lauder, thirdly the Baillerie of Lauder whereto four Parishes
answer viz. Lauder, Seeinghill Kirk, Mertoun and Nenthom.
fourthly the Regality of Prestoun and Forrest of Dye belong-
ing to the Marquess of Douglass, fifthly the Lordship of
Coldinghame and Stewartry of March belonging to the Earle

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of Hume; besides a great number of Baron Courts with great
priviledges and extent.

The Religious Houses, which shews the pleasure and fertility
of the Shire, are the Abbacy of Dryburgh, the Nunry of
Eccles, the Priory of Caldstream, the Abbacy of Coldinghame,
the Abbacy of St. Bothans & Strafountain.

This Shire contains three Presbyteries : Chimside, Duns and
Earlestoun.

In the Presbytery of Chimside are these following Churches,
Chimside, Coldinghame, Aytoun, Mordingtoun, Fowlden,
Huttoun, Hilltoun, Ladykirk, Lendell, Whitsome, Simperin,
Swintoun, Edram and Eyemouth upon the Ocean.

Duns contains Duns, Langtoun, Polwart, Greenlaw, Eccles,
Fogo, Abbay, AUumfoord, Langformacus, Crainshawes, and
Prestoun.

Earlestoun contains these Churches. Earlestoun, Lidgert-
wood, Lauder, Seeinghill Kirk, Westruther, Gordon, Nenthorn,
Smaleholme, which is in Teviotdale, Stow, which is in Mid- ^90.
Lothian & Mertoun.

Cockburnspath is in the Mers, but answers to the Presbytery
of Dumbar.

In the time of Presbytery, Merss and Teviotdale made up
one Synod, in the time of Episcopacy the Mers answers to the
Diocese of Edr.

There be six considerable Waters, which run through this
Shire, four whereof, to wit, Leider, Eden, Leit, and Whittiter
Water run into Tweed ; Eye runs into the Ocean, and Blacater,
(which runs lengthways through the middle of the Mers) runs
into Whittiter some four miles before Whittiter run into
Tweed. Besides these six in Langtoun water which runs into
Blacater a mile be east Wedderburn.

In the Description of the shire shall be shewed what Parishes
ly on each Water, where each Water hath its rise, and what
Parishes are interjected betwixt the Waters, what Hills and
Woods and Lochs are in the same, and what other considerable
Rivulets run either to Tweed or the Ocean, and what number
of Mylns stand upon each Water and what Town have P'airs
and Mercats.

The first Water is Leider, which runs mostly from North to

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South, hath its rise from several heads. First from Langmoor
moss, a bum descends by Threebumfoord and Hartside and
another from the Windygowle by Over Hartside, a third from
Seeing-hill-Cross by Greengelt, and a fourth from Eelphupe
by Carfrae, with several others, which augment Leider, as
upon the northside, Whelplaw Water, Egerhope Water,
Bowndrich, Lidgertwood Water, and Earlestoun Water upon
the other side Lauder Burn.

Upon Leider Water twenty Mylns.

The first Parish is Seeing-hill Kirk, which has its name
from Seeinghill Cross, which is so called because Bonefires,
which were appointed by Acts of Parliament recorded in
Regiam Majestatem, when there were any Incursions in the
Kingdom were to be seen, not only be the West end of the
Mers and Teviotdale to the borders, but by the Lothians
J91. Stirlingshire, Perthshire and Fife.

There are in this Parish of Considerable Houses, Hartside,
CoUilaw, Over and Nether Howdoun, Ogestouii, Carfrae with
the Barony thereof.

Four miles beneath this is the Burgh and Parish of Lauder
which is the only Burgh of the Shire, more ancient than
opulent, because lying on the outcomer of the Shire, having
the Priviledge of the Commissariot Court by Act of Parlia-
ment, so that all the Testaments in the whole Shire are
confirmed there. It hath several considerable Fairs granted
to it of old & of late viz. St. Barnabies day, and St. Lukes day
with five others.

There is built in this Burgh lately by the Duke of Lauder-
dale, a weel contrived handsom Church, as it were consisting
of four Isles, with a large steeple rising in the middle thereof.
The Burgh stands about a bowdraught be west the Water on
the Westside.

Upon the Waterside beneath the Town stands the stately
House of Thirlestone Castle, of old called the Fort of Lauder
built by Chancellour Maitland the Dukes Grandfather, but of
late wonderfully adorned by the Duke with Avenues, Pavilions,
Outer Courts, and stately Entries with large Parks and
Planting.

The considerable Towns upon the westside of the said

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Water are BlackChester, Klmoor, Trabrown, Over and Nether
Sheilfield, Moorcleuch, Caldshiells, and the Woodheads, with
Lauder Bams, And on the eastside Whelplaw, Adingston,
Lylestoun, Newbigging, Wantonwcdls, Thirlestone, Blyth,
Gairmoor, Bredshaw, Ridge & Eggerhope, Woodencleuch,
Easter and Wester Mainses. There is at Eggerhope a large
Park built by the Duke for the haining of some appearing
Oaks, which were growing upon several litle hills like Juniper
bushes, and now in six years space, since they were guarded
from beasts, are risen to Uie height of Forkshafts and Oxgoads.

There are in this Parish, on the Eastside, of Gentlemens iftf.
Houses — Bumcastle of the name of Logan, and Park of the
Mains of Lauder, where there is a considerable bush of wood
with planting upon Lambing edge, on the westside, St Leonards
of the name of Hume, & Chappel of the name of Peter, both
environed with considerable Planting.

There are three Rooms called Blainslies, lying within this
Parish, though appertaining to Teviotdale, where the most
considerable Oats for seed grow, and are bought up by all the
shires about, for that Use, and ordinarily give near double
rate.

Under this, is the Parish of Ligertwood, upon the eastside
of the Water, containing the Eirkhill, the Town of Ligert-
wood, Birkenside, Easter and Wester Moristouns, Adingstoim
to the south, and Dods to the North, with the Barony of
Bowne, wherein is Corsbie Loch.

Beneath the Parish of Ligertwood lyes Earlestoun, close
upon the Water, where Thomas the Rhymer was bom, having
for his simame Lermouth. This Parish lyes east and west
betwixt Leider and Eden Waters. Upon Leider side stands
the ancient House of Coldinknows and beneath it near Tweed,
Kedpath, betwixt which of old were great Woods; above
them a great height called the Blackhill, on the south side
whereof stands the Park a Gentleman'^s House of the name of
Brown ; upon the east end stands the Barony of Mellerstanes,
the Town of Phans«

Beneath this, upon Tweedside is the Parish of Mertoun.
The Westmost part is Gledswood below Redpath with a con-
siderable bush of Wood under it. Over against Old Melross

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below this, is Beemerside an old Estate of the name of
Higgins. Below this, the Abbacy of Dryburgh over against
Lessuden, where hath been a stately Fabrick, where the Corps
of M' Alex' Simpson Minister of Mertoun lies, who was a man
eminent for piety. A mile below this is Mertoim which is

IBS. the Residence of Sir W™ Scot of Harden. A Dwelling house
very commodious, though not modish, adorn''d with consider*
able Planting & Parks. Below this lyes Dalcloof close upon
Tweed over against Littledean. About a mile benorth Mer-
toun is Whiterig, and the Loch, and the Bog, which was an
useless peice of ground, but being drained by Sir W^ affoords
yearly eight or ninescore dargs of Hay. A little beneath this,
is the Town of Brotherstains, under which Sir W"* hath built
a considerable Park.

Below Mertoun close upon Tweed is the Parish of M^Kairs-
toun the Laird being of the name of M^Dougal : and below
him a little oiF Tweed is Todridge belonging to a Grentleman
of the same name ; and benorth it is Charterhouse and Char-
terhouse moor. This Parish lyes over against Rutberfoord
and Roxburgh, and is now in Teviotdale.

Benorth this is the Parish of Smaleholm, which is also in
Teviotdale and Smaleholm Craigs be west Smaleholm, where
are several considerable Parks built by Sir W^ with great
stone Dikes. To the east hand is Smaleholm Spittle. These
three Parishes ly betwixt Leider and Eden close upon Tweed.
Eden, which is the second most considerable Water in the
Mers, hath its rise off the back of Bownehill within the Barony
of Corsbie & comes down by the Stock Bridge, where the
Dean Burn joyns with it, and runs down besouth Bc^sindean,
which is a part of Westruther Parish, and then runs down be
north Fasyde betwixt the two Gordons.

The first Parish on this Water is Gordon, the Church is in
West Gordon, standing upon a Promontory-neck. A little
under this to the west is Greenknow a Gentlemans house of
the name of Pringle, where there is considerable Planting. A

194, mile be West this, is the Town Huntlie Wood and Huntlie,
whence the Marquess hath his Stile. And benorth this, is
Huntlie wood Knock a considerable Hill with a Wood. Upon
the northside thereof, to the north of the Church is Fasyde a

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Gentieman^s Dwelling of the name of Mowet. Be East the
Church is East Gordon a long Town, Bowes, Byrewalls,
Middlethrid ; and a mile be East these Bellitaw; and be
north these is Hecklespath, Rumeltounlaw, Gordon Mains,
and Rumeltoun lying close to Blacater Water bordering with
the Parish of Greenlaw.

Upon the east side of Eden, some two miles below Gordon
is the Parish of Nenthom, which borders with Smaleholm on
the other side of the Water, Here is the Church, the Town,
the Myln, where Littledean has built a Dwelling house. Be
north is the Sneep a Gentleman's House of the name of
Haitlie. A short mile below Nenthorn on the West side of
the Water is the Town of Newtoun, which has a regular
Avenue carrying upward to a great House built by Sir Alex*"
Don the Proprietar of those lands beautified with Parks and
Planting. On the same side of the Water below, lyes Ednam
Parish toward Tweed, now in Teviotdale, belonging to a very
ancient Family of the name of Edmiston.

Be north this on the east side of the water, is the Parish
of Stitchell likewise in Teviotdfide, belonging to Sir Robert
Pringle, where there is a considerable House, Avenues, Parks
and Planting, stately seated on a rising ground.

The third Water, which lyes toward Tweed, is Leitte, which
has two heads, the one from the West, and the other from the
east. That from the West hath its rise from Lurgie Loch
benorth Nenthom, and runs through Hume Parish and carries
the name of Lambden Bum, till it meet with Lette at the
East end of the Parish of Eccles.

Upon this Water is the Parish of Hume. Upon the north
side of this Water is the Town of Hume upon a rising ground
near a mile of length, in the middle whereof was a stately 195.
commanding like Castle, but now demolished by the English
in the late Invasion all appertaining to the Earles of Hume.
In this Parish and to the south is Hume Byres, Hariheuch,
Hardes Myln, k. Hardes Myln Place ; to the north Fasithill
and Todridge, and to the east Oxmoor. In this Parish the
Church is demolished, and the whole annexed to Stitchell.

Besouth Lambden Bum towards Tweed in a pleasant ground
lyes the large Parish of Eccles, where is a great number of

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Gentlemen dwelling upon all airths of the Church, especially
towards the North & the east ; as the Town of Eccles, where the
Laird dwells of the name of Hume ; benorth Over Mains of
the name of Dickson, Nether Mains of the name of Bruntfeild,
Rennetside Heads of the name of Hume, Hardacres and
Whitehouse of the name of Bruntfeild ; both of them, Dedrigs
of the name of Marjoribanks, where there is an ancient Monu-
ment of a stone Cross : Tofts, now Purveshall ; where is a
considerable House and a large fruitfiill Orchard ; Mersingtoun
now belonging to M' Alexander Swintoun ; Herdrige belong-
ing to Sir W™ Purves ; Kames belonging to M' Hary Hume
Commissar of Lauder; Ernslaw of the name of Douglass.
Boughtrige of the name of Dickson ; Belchester and New-
bigging of the same name ; the Towns of Lettam belonging
to the Earles of Hume. All thir ly to the North and North
East. Close upon Tweed is the Town of Birdgame a little
above Werk Castle in Northumberland. A little besouth the
Church is Newtoun of the name of Edgar, and be south that
is Lochtoun with a Loch belonging to Sir James Cockburn of
Riselaw.

The other Head of Leitte rises out of the Parish of Whit-
some and runs through the middle of the Parish of Swintoun
and then down betwixt the Hirsel and the Hirsellaw to
Tweed at Caldstream.

Whitsome Parish which lyes weel East, containeth Whit-
some Town, to the north whereof is Rewlie, to the northwest
tOfj. Whitsomelaws, Ramrige, and to the southwest Newtoun of
Whitsomehill, Whitsome vaults.

To the southwest is the Barony and Parish of Swintoun,
Swintounhill and little Swintoun, the Ellback which is con-
siderably garnished with planting.

At the foot of this Water is the Parish of Lendhill on both
sides. On the Westside is Hirsel the E. of Humes Dwelling
liouse, Todrige, Hatchetnise, Skemoor, and the Lees close
upon Tweed. On the Eastside to the north is Darnchester,
Castlelaw, Weelcleuch, close upon Tweed, Caldstream a mercat
town over against Cornhill in Northumberland, Lendhill where
the Church is, and be East it Graden a 6entleman''s House of
the name of Hume.

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Benorth this, is the Town and Parish of Simperin belonging
to the Laird of Langtoun.

The two next considerable Waters are Blacater & Whit-
tetter viz. Black Water & White Water. Blacater, whidi
is the fourth considerable Water, runs from West to East, its
course will be above ten miles, before it run into Whittiter
under Chimside. It has its rise in the Parish of Westruther
from the Flassedges, where several stripes or springs meet
together and it's called Blackburn, k the ground where it
rises, whilk lyes betwixt Lauderdale and Duns & it is called
the Blackburn.

The iSrst Parish on this Water is Westruther. Be west the
Church lyes Thornidikes a Gentleman's Dwelling of the name
of Brown, of old they were Frewhes, a considerable fertile
ground both for Com and Pasturage as any part of Scotland.
Benorth that, is SpotsWood, where, of old the Lairds of that
Ilk dwelt; of whom came the Superintendent and the Arch-
bishop, thereafter Chancellour. To the north is Roecleuch,
Flass, and the Lairdship of Weatherlie an ancient Family of
the name of Edgar. To the south Harelaw and Bassindean.
That Parish of old had great Woods with wild beasts, fra
quhilk the Dwellings and Hills were designed as Woolstruther, 197.
Roecleuch, Hindside, Hartlaw and Harelaw.

The next Parish upon this Water is Greenlaw, the north-
most parts whereof are Wetfoot and Bedshile town, where
there is a Dwelling house belonging to Kimerghame, where
is a Water called Fangriste which runs to Blacater, whereon
stands a Mill. Beside this, close on the Water is Hardlaw ;
and below that, Halyburton a Gentleman's Dwelling of the
name of Hume, where is a considerable Flow-Moss hemmed
about by Nature, as though it had been fortified by Art.
Below this, close on the Water is the Church & Town of
Greenlaw with a considerable number of Steeds and Mills.
On the southside of the Water, is Broomhill, Westen'aw,
Greenlaw Castle. Foulshot law. Old Greenlaw. Routchester
Rig a Gentleman's Dwelling with a considerable Orchard well
planted; Rowestoun, Lambden, Howlawes, Crumrig, and
Angleraw.

The Nixt Parish close upon the Water is Fogo, where is a

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large Moor, called Fogo Moor, on the east end whereof stands
Charterhall a Dwelling belonging to a Gentleman of the name
of Trotter. Besouth the Town and Kirk is Riselaw the
Dwelling of Sir James Cockburn. Be east that is Harkeis a
considerable Dwelling belonging to Sir Roger Hog a Lord of
the Session, Bogend ; and to the northwest Chesters, Sister-
path, Cathrie. Benorth this towards Stanmoorlaw is the
Church of Polwart &; Town & Mains & Polwart House all
belonging to Sir Patrick Hume of Polwart, a fertile ground
for pasturage well watered, having three bums Howburn,
Blackburn, and Longbum running pleasantly, with large
Banks and Deans with good Shelters. It has a stately Dwell-
ing, with variety of Parks and Planting. Be this [«c], is
Charterdeanfoord, where four Lairds and Lords may stand
on their own ground and reach a Cup to each other.
198, Polwart stands on the northside of Blacater, where is an
excellent new House, Planting and Parking. To the North
it hath Stanmoorlaw a great Height, where in times of the
troubles were Canons and Bullets fram''d in the snow in great
numbers seen by many. The Parish belongs to Sir Patrick
Hume as also the Barony of Greenlaw, a Burgh of Barony
with a weekly Mercat.

Betwixt Blacater and Whitteter is Langtoun Water which
rises off Langtoun-edge, and comes down by Polwart Town, on
which stands Polwart Mill : then it goes down through the
Parish of Langtoun, runs 'twixt Wedderbum and West
Nisbet, thereafter enters into Blacater.

On this Water stands the Dwelling of Sir Archibald
Cockburn of Langtoun, built by the present Laird, a stately
House commodiously contrived with all OflRce houses, large
stables and stable-Court, large Avenues, Orchard, Bowling
Green, Garden, Woods, Planting and variety of Parks, whereby
the Ground is wonderfully improven. The whole Parish
appertains to the Laird as also the whole Parish of Symperin
and several Lands in the Parish of Duns.

Next to Langtoun is the Parish of Duns lying betwixt
Whittiter and Blacater. The Town and Church stand on a
rising ground in the middle of the Shire, a Burgh of Barony,
a great weekly Mercat, the like whereof is not in the King-

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dom, (for every Weddensday except in the dead time of
Winter, there is great abundance of Sheep, horse, Kine, & all
sorts of Bestial) and severall considerable Fairs. To the north
of the Town is Dunslaw a strong rising ground with a con-
siderable large Plain on the top, where 20,000 or 80,000 men
may be commodiously drawn up. Under the Law to the
West is the Castle, which is now the Dwelling of Sir James
Cockburn. Above that is Borthwick; to the nortliward
Cockbum, Cockbumlaw, Burnhouses, Oxendean, all towards
Whittiter, Cumlage : Under Duns, Gruelldikes, where Laird
Duns lives, of which family was Johannes Duns Scotus, To ^S9.
the eastward, Manderstoun, under it Crumstane and below
that the Palace of Wedderburn of the name of Hume.

Be east Duns, is the Parish of Ederam lying on the north
hand close to Whittiter, and to the south to Blacater. and be
south Blacater. East and West Nisbet, which were considerable
Families, stand upon the north side of Blacater, Blacater and
Kimerghame on the south side of Blacater. The Castle of
Blacater and Palace of West Nisbet are considerable Houses
with large Planting and fruitfull Orchards; Kello, Kello
Castle & Eortie Loch lies betwixt the Nisbets. Broomhouse is
on Whitteter.

The next Water is Whittiter the most considerable of the
Shire which riseth forth of Lammermoor in Lothian ; for here
the greatest part of Lammermoor appertains to East Lothian.
It comes from the Whitercleuch down by Johnscleuch a con-
siderable Dwelling of Blacaters in Lothian. To the southwest
is the Water of Dye, whereon the Parish of Leuigfirmacus
stands. On this Water is Dunside, Byrecleuch, Trottingshaw,
Scarlaw, Whinrig, Roebum, Deringtoun, Dimpells, Dron-
sheill, Caldra, Langfirmacus Place, which is considerable for
building, parks. Planting, Wood and Bridge; Longfirmacus
Town, Dyeshauch, Mortoun, Kettlesheill.

Next is Falsna Water, which runs into Whittiter on which
is the Church and Parish of Crainshawes, to which many towns
and steeds appertain, which ly in the middle of the Parish of
Longfirmacus as Dmisyde, Whinrig, Roebum, &c. Howbog,
Hainshawsyde.

Upon the East hand Bothwell Water enters Whitteter.

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Under this is the Parish of EUumfoord, Church and Town.
Above it is the Smiddie hill. To the south on the otherside
900. of the Water is Whitecbester.

Below EUumfoord on Whitteter is the Parish of the Abbay
Church, where is a Gentleman^s Dwelling. This Parish lyes
on both sides of the Water. On the northside is Blackerstoun,
Strafontain, Gods or Goakcraft Bea/xrtov whereby the Author
of the Douglass designs himself, Becrinside.

Below this, on the eastside of Whittiter is the Parish of
Prestoun and Bunkell a Regality appertaining to the Mar-
quess of Douglass, a Dwelling house at Prestoun. In that
Parish is the Castle of Billie and Blanern close upon the
Water. There is considerable Planting at Prestoun.

On the same side of the Water, low doun is Chimside,
below which, the two Waters of Blacater and Whittiter meet,
and thereafter the Water keeps the name of Whittiter. This
Town is a Presbytery Seat, the Town in form of a T. Below
this Town is Ninewells a house of the name of Hume, East
Mains, Spencer's Mains. On the Waterside are considerable
Freestone Rocks, Caves, and Quarries. About a mile below
this, is the Town and Place of Eidingtoun, where a consider-
able House of the name of Ramsay, excellent Meadows, and a
fruitful! Com bearing ground.

On the south side of Whittiter 'twixt Whittiter & Tweed
are three Parishes ; Hultoun, the Town and Church. Under
it Huttoun-hall. Hiltons Dwelling of the name of Johnstoun,
Paxton, Clarebad, Homdean, Fishik, Spittle.

Hiltoun Parish, Town and Kirk, Crosrig, Jordanfeild
Dykethead. '

Ladykirk an excellent Church, Upsettlingtoun, Bannock-
burn.

Below Eidingtoun close upon Tweed, the Parish, Town and
Mannour Place of the Barony of Foulden, a large Town, a
plentiful! fruitful! ground, Nunlands above the Town to the
North.
^i. Be east Foulden is the Boundrode and Berwick bounds close
upon Tweed to the German Ocean, and benorth the Bound-
rode to the Ocean is the Parish of Mordingtoun, standing on
a rising high green Hill, Mordingtoun Church and Place,

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where pleasant Parks and Pasturage, belonged of old to a
Brother of the House of Douglass ; Edringtoun A Edringtoun
Castle to the Lauders, Nether Mordingtoun where the Mill
Dam is hewed through a Rock, a runs under ground. Toward
the Ocean is the Town and Place of Lammertoun. Upon the
Ocean, the eastmost Town in the Shire is St. Cuthberfs Kirk,
where K. James the 4*** married the King of England Henry
the 7**" eldest daughter, whence »the succession to the Crown
flowed, Lammertounsheill, and Ross an excellent Harbour,
where plenty of fisiies.

The last considerable Water is Ey which runs through three
Parishes, Coldinghame, Eytoun or Aitoun, & Eymouth.

Aytoun Parish, wherein Plandergaist, Whitrig, Bastenrig,
Castle and Town of Aytoun, on the Post rode a Bridge Fleem-
ingtoun famous for freestone Quarries within the Ocean.

£ymouth Parish, wherein Linthill, RedhaU, Nether Byre,
Brounsbank, Gunsgreen, Eymouth, Town, an excellent Harbour
fortified by the French in Queen Marie^s Minority.

Coldinghame a great Parish, whereunto most of the upper
part of the Water of Ey belongs ; for Ey rises off the east end
of JLammermoor Hills, and runs mostly from North to east,
till it enter the Ocean. On the head of the Water is Black-
burn, Butterdean, Berriehill, Easter and Wester Brockhills,
where Nuts grow in abundance, Rentoun, where an excellent
House, great Woods & parks. Haw-wood where [sic] Wood
and Place ; Swansfeild, Hobroun, West Restoun, Hillend, East
Restoun, Swinewood, Whitefeild, Blackhill, Hornend, Ell
Water which cometh into Ey, where Ell Mill, and Law Mill
and the Press which appertained to Sir George Hume of
Manderstoun, Coldinghame Town, Coldinghame Law, Abbacy 20J,
built 1098, St. Ebba's head, Windilaws, Redheuch, Fastcastle,
St. Helens Kirk, High-Chesters, Falabank, Old Cammes,
Dowlaw, Coldsyde, Lumisdean, Haven, Coldinghame Loch,
abounding with Pikes and Pearches, fresh water without a
Bottom on the top of the Rock beside the DeviPs arse, which
is in perpetual motion.

Be north this, is the Parish of Cockburnspath, in that same
side of the Town before mentioned on the Water of Ey,
Blackburn, Foulfoord, I^is, East & West Sheills, Penmout-

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sheill, & Penmouthsheelhank a considerable Wood, Old
Cammes, Redheuch, Whitecove an Harbour for Herring fish-
ing, the Pathhead, Posthouse, the Town, Place and Church of
Cockburnspath, all over foregainst Dunglass and Oldhamstocks
in Lothian Dunglass Burn being the March.

There are above 100 Mills in the Shire.

There are great and commodious Fishings upon Tweed.

There are severall Woods, most part Birch, pleasant though
not commodious.

There are severall Hills, as the Blackhill under Ersiltoun,
the Douns at Mellerstaine, the Knock at Huntliwood, Boun-
hill, Edgar-Hope, Terculan Law, Seeinghill-Cross, the Flass-
edges. Twin lawes, or gemeUi montes above Weatherlie,
Deringtoun lawes, Langtoun Edge, Dunslaw, Cockbumlaw,
Codinghamelaw, Mordingtoun Hills, and Hills on the head of
Ey.

The length of the Shire angle ways fra Lammertoun to
Langcleuch, the Westmost Steed in Seeinghill Kirk Parish,
being direct East and West, will be but 24 miles, the breadth
not above 14.

The Dotterills use about Bastenrig on the East hand and
the Moristouns & Mellerstane Douns on the West ; the last the
14«» of April, and the first the 14^ of May.

Several considerable Houses built of late.
i05. The largest and most considerable Parishes are Lauder,
Eccles, Duns and Coldinghame, Eccles Church exceeding four
Gentlemens Dwellings.

The considerablest Names are 1. the Humes of which besides
the Earle there will be above 30 Families with Estates. 2
The Cockburns, Langtoun Cockburn, Riselaw, Caldra.

Several ancient Families decayed ; West Nisbet was of that
Ilk, East Nisbet, Chimside, Mertoun, Halyburtoun, Spots-
wood of that Ilk. Thornidike French, Barony of Boan or
Corsbie, Easter and Wester Moristouns, Easter and Wester
Mains, Numeltoun Law, all Cranstoims, Mellerstains Heatly,
Laird Lermonth in Ersiltoun, whereof Thomas the Rhymer,
now extinct & many others.

The most considerable Buildings are Langtoun, Polwart,
Blacater, Duns-Castle, Purveshall, Newtoun Don, Stitchell a

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considerable House, though in the bosom of the Mers, yet
reckoned to Teviotdale ; Longfirmacus a considerable House,
Weatherlie a new House, Thirlstane Castle the first.

Few Bridges. • A timber one at Lauder over Leider, Stock-
bridge upon the head of Eden ; three over Blacater, one at
Westruther, another at Greenlaw, a third at Fogo ; two over
Whittiter, one at Longfirmacus, the other at Chimside ; one
over Ey at Aytoun; one over Ell at the Press, ere it enter
Ey ; one at Cockburnspath on the Post Rode.

A Generai. Description of the STEWARTRY
of KIRKCUDBRIGHT

The Stewartry of Kirkcudbright is circular whose Center
will be the south end of the great Loch of Kenne Water &
the most easterly point thereof; which bordereth upon the
Airds belonging to the Lairds of Earlestoun. The Water of
Kenne from its fountain, while it meeteth with the Water of
Dee, and then the Water of Dee to the Isle of Ross, where it
entereth into the Ocean, maketh up the Diameter of the Circle
AC. to page £21. See vol. page

Account of the Curiosities at DRUMFREIS to4.
by DocTOUR Archbald

Drumfreis.

In answer to the Doctor his Advertisement, and your desire,*
I must say, Messis est nobiscum parca, sed pcdeas cottigamus.

As for the nature of this Countrey, yourself can sufficiently
inform the Doctor, & also as to the Product, which you know
to be Wool A Cows, Fish & Tallow for Burdeaux exchanged
there with Pruns Wine, and Brandy; Skins and hides for
Holland. Our Trading is with France, Holland & Dantzick.

I have not observed any thing worthy his notice cast up
from our narrow sea.

Near this, or within ten miles in the Stewartry of Galloway
are Silk-worms, Bastard, Amethysts, Limestone, Pearles and
(as is thought, but not yet found) Lead & Coal.

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In Nidesdale are ancient Houses, such as yourself can
inform for nothing is here, which is not ancient enough;
and few things new. YouT inform concerning the ancient
Houses Sc Lochs such as Closeburn &c. Woods such as
Tinnald, Mouswald, Carlaverock, Dardarroch &c.

As for Drumfreiss, you also sufficiently know it : it ^s so called
from the Freez-well beside it. It ^s ruled by one Provest, S
Baillies. It^s Revenue is reckoned betwixt 5 ft 6000 Merks«
You "l inform of the old Gray-frier Church, where the Cumin
was killed ; of the Castle, Bridge, Church, new Exchange, our
large Granary house, which though old, is still new work ; our
stately Cross, large street, and pleasant situation by & alongst
the River Nith.

Just beside this Town upon the side of the River, hard by
the Castle of Cumin, in the place called Castledikes once well
fortified with Mounts & Ditches, but now ruinat, springs a
fountain most strongly all Summer Harvest & Spring, though
never so hot & dry, which precisely about Hallowmass, as ia
generally reported dries up, though the Winter were never so
rainy untill the Spring.
f06. Within four miles I remember to have seen a spring, which
at that time was dryed up, wherein may be digged abundance
of an earthy substance like Litharge of Gold, unctuous and
greasy, which when the people mix it with water, casts up a
splendent, golden oyly like colour wherewith they colour their
doors and windows.

Within ten miles is a Well, whence the neighbouring people
digs an Earth, which they call Bleck. Its black and thick as
I remember instar Limi Argillosi, Herewith they colour much
of that Cloth they call Galloway-Grays.

I did here see a Boy five or six years old, living within three
miles of this place, out of whose joynts, shoulders, buttocks
fingers & toes did grow little Horns like the Typhi or young
Horns of a Goat black and hard, which, when they came to
the length of two inches, did sorely trouble him a fall off*,
others succreseing ; thus every half year.

In a Moss, which lyes upon the eastside of this Town seven
miles long, and one mile broad dig'd I have the Leg of a Child
cut oiF as appears, by the Patella. Its of a stickish like sub-

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stance, the Tibia a Fibula inliosened in a Casement like the
black bark of a Tree, which is in place of the Muscles, Tibseus
Peronieus ax. AU the interossean Muscles of the Feet,
Toes, Ancles, Nails, and other parts exactly well proportioned
as any thing Nature can efform. Num fuerat lutum instructum
animal principio integrum vel deficiens animal procedens ; An
foetus humo commissus et a bituminoso calore conservatus, et
processu temporis quasi transmutatus, dignus est D.D. Sibbaldo
nodus, ad cujus augusta subsellia hoc ipsum redino.

As for Annandale, the Supreme Govemour, Stewart and
Lx>rd thereof is the Earle of Annandale, an Ancient Family, &
Wardens of the Border. Wherefore their Arms are supported
with a saddled Horse and a crowned Lion, carrying upcm the
Crest a flying spur. The Motto is Nunquam non paratus.

In this Countrey are the Wells of Mofiet, incircled with a
Wall by the foresaid family.

His Houses are Lochwood and Newbie ; the one desireable 906.
for strength the other for pleasure ; that for pasture, Moss or
fire ft Wood this for Fish and plenty of Coneys.

Here is the King^s Castle of Lochmaban, famous for defend-
ing the Countrey in the old English Inrodes, strengthened by
a Loch surrounding it, where the Fishes called Venaces ft
Gevenaces are talked of nowhere else in our Countrey. They
are pleasant white Fishes.

Contiguous unto this Loch, are seven large Lochs, all which
have the same Fishes, a clear and stony bottom, with a toss-
ing surge and noise before a storm blow. The Fishes resemble
Whitings in colour, tast ft figure, only being a little more
dry.

Beside this Castle is a Moss, which giveth Peits for fire most
white, — ^yeilding a bright shining fire and flame.

Here is also in this County, St. Ruths Church, called Ruth-
wall, where lyes a Monument broken in two peices, which was
a Pillar quadrangle of stone, reaching from the bottom of the
Church unto the roof, and in it cut the portraiture of our
Saviour with Beams incircling his head, and beneath his feet.
Supra Serpentem et Draconem concukabo, and underneath is
the effigie of Peter ft Paul beneath whom is Petnia et Paulu9
fregerunt parem in deserto. Many other Draughts ft Letters,

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Greek, Latin & Hebrew have been there but time and ill using
hath abras'd them.

At this place, the people have a way of making salt from
the sea-sand which they gather up in Summer, and prepare in
Winter. If the D*. desire to know the way they prepcure it, I
shall give him an account.

Upon the top of a great Height is a Tower caUed the House
of Repentance some 8 miles from the King^s Castle and 15 from
the English border, where Beacons being placed, the Castle had
immediately an alarm. This was seen by most of the Whole
County, and much of Nidesdale,and some of Galloway, putting
them to their sudden posture of Defences.

As for WeUs, the three shires abound with many, unto
i^. which people resort, more famous from fables then fates ; yet
several of them resemble MoiFet Wells, in colour, last and
smell.

As for the nature of the soil a the houses, with Woods ft
Lochs, yourself knows, and hath seen them.

And as to Galloway, I have remitted it, conform to your
last, unto M' W™ Ewart the Provest of Kirkcudbright, who will
give account of what is observable or memorable there, where
are the most ancient Monuments of this Countrey, and many
old Abbacies, as Newabbay, Dundrenan, Whithorn, Glenluce,
Tungland, all very considerable, and with us are only Holy-
wood, and the Church of the Colledge whereof yourself can as
well Inform as I.

In that Castle Loch at Lochmaban are various Fishes, besides
these two formerly mentioned ; Pikes, Green backs, Breams,
Vetches, Pearches with some others.

I will give you account of our sea fishes with the next,
being now hastened.

Continuation of the former Account.

In the moneths of June & July they take an Harrow ft go
over the dry sands, which I have observed spangling as with
shining nitre; and having raised it, they rake it into smal
Ranges, or little Arcolas, and next day if they fear Rains,
they take a sled with a broad board fixed to the hinder part
thereof, the edge downward upon the ground, which they

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call the Happ and with this drawn by a Horse, they gather
the Ranges together into an heap. Thereafter within some
few dayes they carry it away upon Wagons, drawn by 8 oxen
unto the Coast, & there they heap it up unto the bigness of
a Countrey house which they then call the Saltstacks. Thus
it stands till Winter and then they form an even peice of
ground upon a little ascent ; either naturally or artificially Si08.
so, after the form of a Bed, which they oblute with clay,
raising the edges high and near the end of this Bed, which
they call the Coach, they pierce through an hole into an
hollow place digged below into the Earth, called the Pit,
and this Hole they stop. Then they carry a sufficient quantity
of the Saltstack & spread it over the whole Coach, laying it
three foot thick equally. Then they lay down upon the
middle of the sand, a broad Turf and upon this, they pour
down a sufficient quantity of sea Water which they take up
from little hollow Ponds they digg within the floud mark,
being there left in the ebbing and after 8 hours standing
with the sand which they call Blenking they pull out the
Stopple below, which is made up of Oak or Aller Bark and
the Water stills down into the Pit, wherewith they then fill
their Pans, which are placed near the Coach, and made of
Lead sitting upon a furnace. The Pan is usually an ell and
a half long and near an ell broad. The fire is of Peits, and
herewith they exhale the Water, till the salt only remain,
watching most vigilantly, otherwise ther Pan melts, & they
lose their pains* With this those people help themselves,
and serve the Countrey about them.

It is made at that place called RtUhce Vallum or Ruth wall,
where that Monument of stone is, of which I did give account
in my first, which is said to have been erected by the Saxons,
having progressed no farther into this Countrey then that
place, and that thereafter by Christians inscribed with
sculptures & characters.

The salt is somewhat amaricant, which I suspect to be from
the Nitre.

On these sands, as I remember, I have seen Kali grow thick
& on the banks Brassica marina.

Upon the opposite Coast on high Rocks Crithmun called
Paspire.

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Fishes in this Coast might be more observable, if we had

fishing. I give the names as here called, Salmon, Crowner,

^^- Keiling, Sturgeon, Whiting, Cockle, Muscle, Preans, (which

they call Garnets in Holland, or Garen hete Garen,) Chucks

which I did never see elsewhere.

They are like these Prans in figure, and above all things,
resemble the smallest & coursest of horse corn ; they are clear
and transparent with a forked tail and two long Cornua
stretching from their head straight forward. The manner of
catching them is this ; In the entrance of the river Nith into
the sea the poor people goes, when the sea is ebbing, into the
Water, middle deep two by two, carrying betwixt them a
long sheet, and with one hand they hold deep beneath the
Water, the one edge of the sheet or Blanket, and carrie the
other upon the surface of the Water : thus walking against
the stream, they catch peckfulls of these Vermine-like Fishes,
and the Countrey people hold them most wholesom and
appetising, being boiPd with Leeks and sprinkled with salt,
and eaten with bread.

Oysters, Sole-floukes, Turbot-fleuk, Eels sometimes three
ells long or more. I have the head of one more than a large
foot in lenth, Skate or Flounder, Etterpyles like a small
bum Trout, with a large head and broad shoulders, carrying
three stings on the back, & one at the corner each side the
mouth. It is a pleasant fish for eating ; but its stings are so
tormenting, that the pricked person is scarce able to stir, but
must be candied home, and after a whiles pain as three dayes,
it ceaseth, and the swelling falleth. They flat these Pricks
down upon their backs and raise them at pleasure, or when
irritated. Skeddan a fish so called, but esteemed an Anchove.
These two are found in the entrance of Annand Water and
Sulway Sands into the sea, or close by the E. of Annandale's
House Newbie, where he dwells.

Haddocks, Herring not very much desired, because their
other fishes for a long time. Sea-adder, Thomback, Lamprey,
with a Beek stretching like a Whaap's, Hirlings, Sea-needle,
which hath a long Beek 3 inches in length; its body is the
length of a Bum trout and much like a Whiting with a forked
mo, tail, each fork an inch long, with fins & scales. Russ-lish, so

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•called from their smell and colour, being sea-green coloured,
and smelling like a Bundle of green bushes. These seem
spurlings. White Flook whereof some are a little blewish,
with golden like spots over all the skin. Skatebread, which
is a little small Fish an inch and a half long, shining clear
•as silver, which the people eat (boyled) with their bones head
& tail, they can only endure one boyl or two. Lumps or
Limps, Partons.

Fowls.

Bittour making a great sound in the summer evenings Sc
mornings by thrusting her beak into the ground, when
«he cries.

Blackcock, whereof Sir Ro^ Dalyell hath one hanging in
his Hall, which is white almost all over his body.

Green Plover returning every spring in abundance, and
staying all summer.

Jay called Lipper- Jayes, taught to speak as exactly as any
PaiTat.

Myresnipes, which is like a Feldefare, called Heatherbleet.
In pleasant summer evenings they soar high in the Air with
a quivering voice, and are excellent meat.

I mention none else, as being ordinary, save Woodpeckers.

Quadrupeds.

In the Wood of Glenea belonging to Sir Ro* Dalyell are
perfect squirrels but never exceeding the bigness of a little
Rat. Badgers in Galloway which the Countrey people catch
and boyl reserving their fat for aches and bruises. Hedgehog,
Hart and Hind runing wild on Galloway Mountains. Otters
in severall places.

Insects.

The kind of GryUifocarii or pistrinarii are here abundantly
very like Cantharides.

This Aranea, which I have sent with its silk beside it,
whereof none are to be found in our Countrey, but in this one
place, which is a Cove upon the sea shore environed therewith

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ill. very near at each full Tide. The persons I employed to
search for them tell me that with lighted candles they crept
into the little entrance and then came into a large dark
arched Room, upon which here and there hung these little
Balls full of yound and the Lady one spinning amongst or
about them, nothing else to be found there within the
vault.

Fossiles.

The Earth calPd Bleck digg d out of a Fit an ell and a half
long and near as broad, and the depth of a Pike. The
Countrey people boyl Aller or Oaktree bark in Water making
a strong Laxive, and therein they boyl this also together with
their Cloth, which thence receives a black colour. Traditionally
they report here a ship loden with Iron to have sunk. The
Lake smells exactly as Moffet Well. The sea sometimes over-
flowes it. The Earth when taken from the place quickly spoyls,
and losing its black colour tumeth into a clay colour unless
the vessel be covered with Iron or Iron put into it.

I have not yet gotten that Lithargick like Earth,
neither the white Peit, but shall send them as soon as*

I have sent the Tlbie effbrmata fossilis^ which I desire you
be pleased to send me back again as soon as you may.

I could send you that stone, which is like the Bristol Stones
and another which is Cornu Cervi fo8Sile with signatures. I
hope you will send them back again to me.

Wells.

Here are many superstitiously used, but Physical I know
none, save Moffet WeUs in Annandale. A Well in Closeburn
Parish in a Moss belonging to the Laird of Closeburn.
Another at Tothorwald belonging to the D. of Queensberry.
A third at Kirkbeen in Galloway within a mile of the black
ti2. Lake in a Meadow. These are used after the same manner,
have the same colour, tast and smell but the ill luck of a
lesser fame.

Many run superstitiously to other Wells and obtain, as they

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imagine, health or advantage. But I know of no Physical
influence. Only from the deceits of that they

are deceived & there they oflTer bread & cheese or Money, by
throwing them in into the Well.

And lately being called four miles hence to a Gentleman^s
sick child troubled with vomiting and faintings, I told him
that I suspected the smalpocks, and desired him not to fear.
Then he told me regrettingly that some of his servants had
given the Child a draught of a Well within a mile of his
House, which the sick parties friends fetch there to the sick,
and having given them of it to drink, they reckon that they
shall live, if they do not vomit it, but if they vomit, they
must die.

I went and viewed that Well at Castle Dikes within a little
of this Town, and saw it yet running. But it ^s confirmed by
all who know it, and particularly one to be believed, who
dwelt there long, told for confirmation that he knew it these
40 years, and never knew it run or spring in the Winter,
though never so rainy & in the summer never dry up in the
greatest drought. It is a pleasant and plentifull spring in
summer, as I have observed.

And within half a mile or less of it upon the other side of
a little Height, is another Well, which dryes up for three or
four moneths in the latter end of Winter. But I am not so
certified of this last.

Serpents.

Here I was told that the Slow-worm was found at Close-
bum^s House near the gate, and at the Castle Meadow at
Cockpeel.

Near this or within 20 miles was a young Gentleman, who
in an bote summers day, did readily slip into a Moss and
catch an Adder, which he presently thrust into his bosom and
kept there for a while without any hurt, and then dismissM it.

I saw a Countrey woman here, out of whose inferiour pro- iis,
pendent ear-lob, did spring such a flux of blood, that she was
almost gone and thereafter, when I saw her, I could not per-
ceive the least vestige of any aperture.

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194 GALLOWAY

I have some peices of a growing stone, which I carried from
the bulk as a fragment, but not found here, I was perswaded
of the growing of it by many worthy persons, & eye witnesses,
and handled & saw it myself.

I saw & felt these horns, (whereof I did give account in my
first) issuing out of all a Boys extremities, and resembling
young goats horns, till they acquire a due bigness Sc then fell
off and others succeeded.

Within twenty four miles at a place within a mile ft an half
of the sea did fall a shower of Herrings which covered near an
half Acre of ground. They were alive and eaten by Crentle-
men, who told me, when I came there (which was a little
thereafter) concerning them. They soon dyed ft quickly
spoyled.

Further Account anent GALLOWAY by D' Archbald.
Sea Fishes in Galloway.

A Bayin a thick little Fish about a foot long, red coloured,
with some white spots in the belly, narrow tailed, with an
hard small head ; a very well tasted Fish, but full of small
bones like a Pike.

A Lyth, about the bigness of a small salmongilse, not
unlike in shape, but dark gray coloured. It^s esteemed the
best Fish in all the Coast.

A Blockan, about the bigness of a white Salmond Trout, of
shape and colour like the Lyth, but a dryer Fish.

Dog fish, about the length of a little salmon, but smaller of
body big headed, hollow eyed ; but draws very narrow at the
taill, with a stiff thick fin, of a silver gray colour. His skin is
so rough, that no man is able to draw one of them over bis
^^4- shoulders, the skin takes such hold of his clothes. They do
not spawn as other Fishes, but ferries the young at the navel,
which I frequently saw, after they were catched. Their Ksh
is not good.

The Sand-Eel is of the shape of a fresh water Eel, about a
foot or some more in length, but very clear, almost transparent.
They are catched in the sand at low Tide, ft well tasted.
They are catchable with Angle at the sea shore.

The Pillock is a large fish about ten foot long ft as great of

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body as ane Ordinare Horse, almost shaped like a Pike, black
coloured, with a long head, and a monstrous number of teeth
all of equal length. It is seldom catched, but when inveigled
in Hening-Nets. The Countrey-people make oyl of them.

Fresh Water fishes there.

A Nembling Skeal, shaped like a Herring, but of the
quantity of a salmond gilse, with scales so hard, that it is
hardly penetrable; and when it comes up the River, it
aflrights all other fishes, so that the fishing proves alwayes
bad, when they abound.

The Horn-Eel about two foot long, not far from the shape
of another Eel. It hath a pike out of its forehead like the
figured horn of a Unicorn ; coloured like a Sparling, and
eatable.

The longer Eel is of length more than twelve foot. The
skin of it is very strong, which the Inhabitants make use of for
Girths to their horses lasting very long.

A Brandling is a little fish found in the Water of Fleit,
about the bigness of a little Trout, with many red spots, but
very excellent fish, where also are found Pearles.

A Cuddin is a little Fish as big as a large Trout, short but
thick bodied, its belly a pure red colour, its tast very sweet,
and is only found in a lake called Lake Grenoch in a very wild
moorish place, where they abound.

There is a large Cave called the Cave of Uchtrie Macken 2i5,
close by the sea near Port-Patrick, accessible by six steps of a
stair entering a gate built with stone and lime, at the end of
which is built an Altar at least a structure after that figure,
to which many people resort upon the first night of May, and
there do wash diseased children with Water which runs from
a spring over the Cave, and afterwards they ty a farthing or
the like, and throw it upon the Altar.

There is a Well called Kemadert in the Parish of the
Callis. The Water is very sweet, to which many people
resort, who are distempered with sore heads or stomachs and
it proves effectuall.

As for other Wells then these which I formerly mentioned
savouring of MofTet Wells, they are only used superstitiously,

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and their usefuUness seeming fabulous, they are not worthy to
trouble you with their names.

There is a little Isle beside the Mule of Galloway, where if
sheep shall feed but a little, their teeth are immediately
gilded of a golden colour.

There is a place of the sea close upon the Mule, where ships
if they enter, are quickly turned round and sunk down.
Whether it be from contrary Tides or a latadup, I know not,
but I am informed of it by the Laird of Mule living there.

A brief Description of the bounds of PRES-
BYTERY of PENPONT, being the Upper
part of the Sheriffdom of Nidesdale.

Nidesdale is called by Buchanan NUhia a Nitho amoty
which River doth run out of a small Fountain neer Damellin-
toun in Kyle out of a Hill called & runneth in a

small Rivulet for several miles, untill it come to Castle of
Cumlock & waxing greater and greater by receiving other
tte. Rivers, doth run a course of above 30 miles, dividing the
Sheriffdom all along to the Colledge of Lincluden in the
Stewartry of Galloway, near to the town of Drumfreiss, where
receiving a little Water, called Cluden, it divides Nidesdale
from the lower part of Galloway, called the Stewartry of
Kirkcudbright, and running by the Parishes of Terregglis,
Traquire, New Abbay & Killblain on the Galloway side, and
by the Town & Parish of Drumfreiss ft Carlaverock on the
Nidesdale side, it doth empty itself in the English sea or
Sulway firth a little beneath the Castle of Carlaverock in
Nidesdale, and beneath the great Hill called Criffell in
Galloway.

Nidesdale is joyned with Annandale in the election of Com-
missioners for the Parliament ; and the Barons of both are
indifferently elected, but is in Jurisdiction separated from it,
Annandale h&n^r a Stewartry having a Jurisdiction by itself:
but Nidesdale is a Sheriftidom, where My Lord D. of Queens-
berry His Ma^^®" HJ^li Treasurer is Heritable Sheriff; But
the Jurisdiction of the Sheriff' here is not considerable partly

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for that the Interest of the Duke is interwoven in many of the
Parishes, and there be some whole Parishes belonging to his
Grace, whereby his whole Interest being a Regality is subject
to his Baillie ; and partly for that there are several Baronies
in this shire, all which are subject to the Jurisdiction of their
immediate Superiours.

The whole Churches of the SheriflTdom of Nidesdale &
Stewartry of Annandale being 4 Presbyteries, did constitute
one Provincial Synod, untill the late restitution of Episcopacy :
but since that time all the 4 Presbyteries are within the
Diocese of Glasgow.

The Militia of Nithesdale and Annandale consisting of a
considerable Regiment of Foot & a Troup of Horse, the Duke
of Queensberry is Collonell to the Foot, and his Grace'^s son
the E. of Dnimlanrig is Rootmaster to the Horse.

1. But as to the Presbytery of Penpont ; beginning at the *i7.
head of the River, the first Parish is Kirkconnall, so denomin-
ated from Sanctus Congallus, who lived in a Cell by the
vestiges of its foundation yet perceptible, hard by the
fountain he did usually drink of called Fons Convalli or
St. ConalPs Well at the foot of an Hill, where Kirkconall
Church is situate. This Parish hath on the South West side,
the Parish of Cumlock in Kyle, where is the Hill of Consencon
the march between Kyle and Nidesdale and on the Westside a
part of the Parish of Afleck in Kyle. The Parish lyeth on
both sides of the River of Nith, and on the Southside
marcheth with the Parish of Carsfaim in Galloway and on the
Southeast side is divided from the Parish of Sanquhar by a
Rivulet called Killo ; on the Southside of Nith & on the East-
side from the forenamed Parish of Sanquhar by a little Water
called Crawick & on the North & Northwest side it is divided
from the Parishes of Douglass & Crawford-John in Clidesdale.
In the upper part of this Parish there hath been a Convent
or Religious House near to the Church called Karko, afterward
the Dwelling house of a family of the name of Crichtoun,
whose Title it was. They say also that there hath been in
this Parish a Nunry. The whole Parish belongeth now to
My Lord D. of Queensberry, who is Patron of the Church.
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in many places well stored with coal. There is one coal pit
caUed Parbrock, which as is thought, was first begun to be
wrought out by the Picts, whose Pillars curiously wrought are
yet to be seen. It is an excellent one, which they are working
out at this day. There is no more work in any other place
except in the brinks of some Burns there are some coals picked
out by the countrey men. The grain here is oats & some barley.
tl8, % The next Parish is that of Sanquhar, so dominated
from Sanctus Quarus, who lived here, which lying on
both sides of the River Nith, as the former, is divided from
Eirkconnal by the Water of Eillo on the Southwest & South-
side of Nith, & on the North side of the Water, by the River
of Crawick on the Westside & on the North side from the
Parish of Crawford-John in Clidesdale ; and on the Eastside
it is divided from the Parish of Kirkbride by an impetuous
Water called Menock. Upon the Northside of Nith near to
the Water of Crawick stands the Church of Sanquhar a
considerable and large Fabrick, consisting of a spacious
Church & a stately Quire where are the Tombs of severall of
the Lords Crichtons of Sai^quhar wrought in Freestone, and
before them some Lords of the name of Ross. Near to the
Church is situate the town of Sanquhar a Burgh Royall of
old, and having as yet a Commissioner in the Parliament :
a weekly mercat & some Fairs in the year. It was made a
Gild City in the Reign of K. James the Sixth. It hath no
great trade or resort unto it, partly by reason of its great
distance from the sea, and partly because the Inhabitants about
it are but few. In old times, the Citizens were stout men,
who with assistance of their neighbours of the Parish without
the Burgh, made usually an effectual resistance to the
Borderers making Inrodes for prey in a part of this Parish,
and oftentimes pursued them with loss, though their numbers
were considerable. A little beneath the Burgh stands the
Castle of Sanquhar a stately Edifice strongly built, whicli
belonged formerly to the Lord Sanquhar now E. of Drumfreiss,
but now the said Castle with all the lands of the Parish on
the North side of the River except the Burrowlands and the
greatest part of the lands upon the Southside doth belong in
property to the D. of Queensberry except the Barony of

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Eileock, whereunto the Duke is Superiour. It belongs to the S19,
E. of Camwath, in property, having the Mansionplace EUeock
situate in the bounds of it, a goodly Fabrick formerly the
Dwelling place of the Barons of Dalyell, of which the Earles
of Camwath are descended. This part of the Parish is ex-
ceedingly well stored with Wood, but now of late by the
cutting down of a great part of it, for the Lead Mines of
Hopetown in Clidesdale and not parking of it afterwards, it
is much decayed and probably will decay more, if after the
cutting of it, it be not more carefully inclosed for the future.
In this Parish of Sanquhar is Coal on both sides of the River,
and on the Northside of the Parish near to Clidesdale, there
is a Lead Mine of excellent fine Lead in a place pertaining to
the D. of Queensberry, called Cumlock, which was begun to be
wrought out in the Reign of K. James the fifth, and afterward
intermitted but of late hath begun to be wrought and is now
a working out. Near to the Castle of Sanquhar there are
several Parks on both sides of the River, one whereof is well
stored with Deer and other Animals that are for pleasure, and
others for Cattle and these that are for profit, both are like
to abound further in time.

One remarkable particular is not to be here omitted. In
the Year 1653, when the Loyal Party did arise in Arms against
the English in the West & North Highlands some Noblemen
and Loyall Gentlemen with others were forward to repair to
them with such Parties as they could make, which the English
with marvelous diligence night and day did bestir themselves
to impede by making their troups of Horse & Dragoons, to
pursue the Loyal Party in all places, that they might not
come to such a considerable number as was designed. It
happened one night that one Captain Mason Commander of
a Troup of Dragoons, that came from Carlisle in England, S20,
marching through the town of Sanquhar in the night was in
the town of Sanquhar, encountred by one Captain Palmer
Commander of a Troup of Horse that came from Air marching
Eastward, and meeting at the townhouse or Tolboth, one
David Veitch brother to the Laird of Dawick in Tweddale
and one of the Loyall Party being Prisoner in Irons by the
English, did arise and came to the Window at their meeting,

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and cryed out that they should fight valiantly for K. Charles,
Wherethrough they taking each other for the Loyall Party,
did begin a brisk fight, which continued for a while, till the
Dragoons having spent their shot and finding the Horsemen
to be too strong for them, did give ground, but yet retired in
some order toward the Castle of Sanquhar being hotly pursued
by the Troup through the whole town above a quarter of a
mile till they came to the Castle, where both Parties did to
their mutual grief become sensible of their mistake. In this
skirmish there were several killed on both sides, and Captain
Palmer himself dangerously wounded, with many more wounded
in each Troup, who did peaceably dwell together afterward
for a time, untill their wounds were cured in Sanquhar
Castle.

8. The third Parish is Kirkbride lying also on both sides of
the River, as the two forementioned. It is divided from
Sanquhar on the West part of it by the impetuous Rivulet
Menock on the North side, and by the Bum or Rivulet of
on the South side of Nith, and by another Rivulet or Burn
called Enterkin it is divided from the Parish of Dursdeer on
the Eastside ; as also on the South side it is divided from the
same Parish of Dursdeer; and on the North side from the
Parish of Crawford Lindsay in Clidesdale by the Hills at
Enterkin-head. It is but a little Parish, of a small Rent and
tn. few Inhabitants. The Church is but a little Fabrick at the
donation of the D. of Queensberry. The Church is denomin-
ate from St. Brigid. Here dwelt formerly the Lairds of
Cosshowgell of the name of Douglass and the Lairds of
MackMath of Ahensow. But these Linages being now
extinct, the whole Parish pertains to the D. of Queensberry.
There is one Monument in the Church, of one John of
Rockell with this Inscription, Hie situs est Joannes de RockeU
JurisconsuMus EccUsice. In the Rivulets that flow down from
the Hills of this Parish, is great store of Trouts, which though
they fal down by great precipices and Rocks in the way to
the river, so that they cannot get up again, yet in the upper
ground, there is plenty of them, that they yearly spawn great
numbers.

4. The fourth Parish is that of Dursdeer lying upon both

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-sides of the River Nith, as the three former. It is divided on
^he Westside by Enterkin bum, as is said, on the Northside
-of Nith, and on the Southside from Penpont ; on the South-
side of Nith by a bum called on the Eastside from
Penpont also by the Tibbers bum, otherwise called the Park
fium, near to Drumlanrig ; and on the Northside of Nith, it
-is divided from the Parish of Morton on the Northeastside
by the Water of Carren, and on the Northwestside from
"Crawford Lindsay in Clidesdale by the hill of Loders and
others places Eastward. On the Northside of this Parish
-stands the Mansion place of Dalvine formerly belonging to a
Linage of the name of Douglass descended from the E. of
Douglass. But that Linage being now extinct, the whole
Interest of that family pertains to the D. of Queensberry.
"The House is situate in a Pass betwixt two Hills near to
-Crawford Moor. Upon the Northside of which Pass lyeth
the lands of the Lairdship of Castlehill, whereon stands the
Castle of Dursdeer upon another Pass called the Well-path
that leadeth to Crawford moor, which formerly pertained to
the Steuarts of Dursdeer, & of late to the Meinziesses of
Castlehill in property the Barons of Rothesay of the name
of Stewart having till of late retained the Superiority of it :
but now all doth pertain to the D. of Queensberry. Thisfi;?.
Castle hath been an indifferent Strong Hold and was in the
•days of E. Edward Lang Shanks possessed by a Garison of
the English for keeping that Pass Sc afterward in the Reign
of Edward of Camarven his son taken in by Roger Kirkpatrick.
It is now ruined and but a small part of it remaining.

Near to this Castle stands the Parish Church of Dursdeer,
where the Douglasses of the family of Queensberry have been
interred, as also these of the name of Meinzies that formerly
had interest in this Parish, and whereof some yet have. The
Church is an indifferent Fabrick situate in a little village called
Dursdeer, which of old did hold of the Archbishop of
Clasgow, but the few of it not being considerable, was dis-
poned by Archbishop Spotswood to the Ministers of Dursdeer
who were Subchanters of the Diocese of Glasgow and Members
of the Chapter. The Church is at the Presentation of the
D. of Queensberry. About a mile or somewhat more is the

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Barony and Place of Enock, which did formerly belong to»
the Meinzieses of Weems, and of late to another succession
of that name. The whole Parish of Dursdeer, excepting this-
Barony of Enock, on both sides of the River pertains to the
D. of Queensberry. Over against Enock near to the Bridge
of Drumlanrig is situate the Castle of Drumlanrig, a princely
and pleasant Habitation and like to be more so, being the
Dwelling place of the D. of Queensberry. the Original, Rise
and Steps of Ascent of which Family is to be given in by
his Grace^s direction with his other Titles and Heraldry.
Above the Castle of Drumlanrig lyeth the Barony of Drum-
lanrig about three miles up the River on the Southside where
it marcheth with that part of the Parish of Kirkbride.

6. The fifth Parish in the Presbytery of Penpont is the
Parish of Penpont itself divided on the Eastside from the
^S' Parish of Keir by the River Scarr, and on the South and
South West side from the Parish of Tinron, on the North side
it is divided from Dursdeer by a little Rivulet called the
Park burn or Tibbers Burn ; on the North West side it
reaches as far as Sanquhar and above, & lyeth in lenth 10
miles and above from the Church, which stands at the East
end of the Parish. This Parish marcheth with the Parishes-
of Dursdeer Kirkbride and some parts of Sanquhar ; and on
the North east side, it is divided by the River of Nith from
the Parish of Morton on the North side of Nith. It is
denominate Penpont from a Penny payed at this place for
building and upholding of a Wooden Bridge over Nith
betwixt Penpont and Morton long since ruined near to
a Village called Thornhill. At this Church is the Seat
of the Presbytery. On the Northside of this Parish near
to Drumlanrig is the Castle of Tibbers formerly a Strong
Hold, but now totally ruined, there being no place for habita-
tion in or near it. By whom it was built or by whom it was
ruined, it is not certain. It hath been situate in a Promon-
tory, reaching out to a narrow point compassed about with
the River Nith and upon high ground. It hath had very
strong Outworks upon the south part of it. l^adition also
holds it out, that it was garisoned by the English in the time
of Langshanks and taken by Wallace who by burning a Kill

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drew the Garison out of the Castle for stopping of the fire,
and then entred in with a Party that lay in ambush near it,
and possessed it himself. But whether the Castle was burned
by him at that time, is uncertain ; this is certain that it is
now overgrown with thickets. Here was also a Barony called
Ahengashall, that did belong to a family of the name of
Maitland, now extinct. Now the whole Parish, except a few
small Heritages, belongs to the D. of Queensberry. the most
considerable of which is the Lairdship of Eccles belonging to
a Linage of the name of Maitland. The rest of the Heritages
are but small Interests. In the bounds of this land of Eccles
there is a Loch called the Dowloch, of old resorted unto with
much superstition, as medicinal both for men and beasts and
that with such ceremonies as are shrewdly suspected to have Hj^
been begun with Witchcraft; and increased afterward by
magical directions for bringing of a Cloth or somewhat that
did relate to the bodies of men and women and a Shackle or
Teather belonging to a Cow or Horse ; and these being cast
into the Loch, if they did float, it was taken for a good Omen
of recovery and a part of water carried to the Patient, though
to remote places, without saluting or speaking to any they
met by the way. But if they did sink, the recovery of the
party was hopeless. This practice was of late much curbed
and restrained : but since the discovery of many medicinal
fountains near to the place, the vulgar holding that it may
be as medicinal as these are, at this time begin to reassume
their former practice.

6. Next to this Parish of Penpont lyeth the Parish of Tinron
divided on the Northside of it from Penpont by a little Hiver
called Scarr & on the Eastside by the Water of Chinnell, &
on the Southside by a ridge of Hills running to the West
end of it, where it marcheth with Galloway. This Parish is
divided into two parts by a little River called Chinnell, which
springs out of a Hill in Galloway and runs through this
Parish, and at the East end of it where it runneth into Scarr,
and both are called Scarr, Chinnell loseth its name. The
D. of Queensberry hath the Superiority of this Parish, and a
considerable part also of it in property. The rest of it
pertains to severall Gentlemen, as M ackqueystoun and severall

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other Tenements to the Laird Wilson of Crogline on the
Southside of Chinnell, Peinyirie and other Tenements to a
Gentleman of the name of Douglass descended of the Family
of Drumlanrig, on the Northside ; thirdly Istenhouse on the
Southside, and Killwarron on the Northside of Chinnel, both
pertaining to John Douglass of Istenhouse.

Near to Istenhouse on the Northside of Chinnell stands the
Kirk of Tinron builded near to the Barony of Aird pertaining
to Sir Robert Grierson of Lagg Knight, in the bounds of
which Barony is the steep hill called the Dune of Tinron of
ff5. a considerable height, upon the top of which there hath been
some habitation or Fort as is perceived by the Ruines and
Outworks of it; but it is not known by whom it was erected
and inhabited whether by the Romans or by the Scots and
Picts. There have been in ancient times on all hands of it
very thick Woods and great about that place, which made it
the more inaccessible, unto which K. Robert Bruce is said to
have been conducted by Roger Kirkpatrick of Closbum, after
they had killed the Cumin at Drumfreiss, which is 9 miles
from this place, whereabout it is probable that he did abide
for some time thereafter. And it is reported, that during
his abode there, he did often divert to a poor man^s Cottage
named Brounrig, situate in a small parcell of stony ground
incompassed with thick Woods where he was content some-
times with such mean accommodation as the place could afford.
The poor man**s wife being advised to petition the King for
somwhat was so modest in her desires, that she sought no
more, but security for the Croft in her Husbands possession
and a liberty of pasturage for a very few Cattle of different
kinds on the Hill, and the rest of the bounds. Of which
Priviledge that ancient family by the injury of time, hath a
long time been & is now deprived : but the Croft continues in
the possession of the Heirs and successours lineally descended
of this Brounrig and his wife, so that this family being more
ancient then rich, doth yet continue in the name, and as they
say, retains the old Charter.

7. The next to the Parish of Tinron,is the Parish of Glencame
bounded on the northside with a ridge of Hills, which divides
it from Tinron. On the Westside it is divided from some

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places of the Parishes of Dairy & Carsfaim in Galloway, on
the South side with a part of the Parish of Dinscore, and on
the South West side by a part of the Parish of Balmaclellan
in Galloway & on the Northeast side by a Ridge of Moimtains
which divides it from the Parish of Kire.

This Parish was of old a Mensal Kirk of the Bishoprick otise,
Glasgow, but now at the donation of the D. of Queensberry
who is the Superiour to the lands of it. This Parish is large
and lyeth on both sides of a little River called Kairn, whence
it hath its denomination which runneth from 3 several Foun-
tains in Galloway, the first on the Southside called Castlefairn
Water, the second in the middle called Craigdaroch Water,
upon the brink of which stands the House of Craigdarroch
Ferguson : the third Rivulet on the Northside is called
Dowhat Water where stands the Dwelling place of a linage of
the name of M^Gachen descended of one M^Gachen a private
Standart bearer in the Bruces Wars & doth yet continue in
the name. These 3 Rivulets having run each of them severall
miles, do all three meet in one Water at M oniaive a Burgh of
Barony having an usefuU weekly Mercat and some Fairs.
These three Rivulets conjoined make the River Kairn. The
Parish by the running of the Water running six miles down-
wards is divided into two parts one in each side, and thereafter
running on the East part of it. it divides Glen kairn from
Dinscore and thereafter running by the Parish of Holy wood,
it divides Nidsdale from Galloway and continueth its course
by the Parishes of Irongray and Teregglis in Galloway, till it
come to the Colledge of Lincluden, where it falls in with Nith.
A little beneath Moniaive in this Parish stands the Church of
Glencame, situate at the foot of an high Hill called the Dune
of Shankcastle, near to which also stands the Castle of Glen-
came anciently the Dwelling place of the noble Family of the
Cunighames Earles of Glencarne who being Superiour to the
whole Parish, excepting a Barony or two, did divide the
Property amongst his Jackmen for the greater part of it, into
several Tenements, bearing the name of the first Occupants, ^^^
which denominations, though the lands now be possessed by
these of other names, yet they do still retain as at first as
Blackstown, Inglistown, Crawfordtown, Stewartown, Gilmores-

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town, Gordonstown, Garriokstown and some others more And
it is probable that other places had the like denomination,
though now changed. At the Disposition of the Superiority
of this Parish, the Earle of Glencame did reserve the Superi-
ority of one Room called Nether Kirkcudbright, which he yet
retains, and at the Disposition of his own Property a little
Enow near the Castle of Glencame, which Castle with a con*
siderable part of the Parish doth now pertain to Robert
Laurie of Maxeltoun Baron of Straith which makes him
capable of electing and being elected a Commissioner for the
Parliament.

Near to this Castle in the year 1651 When King Charles
the Second had marched with his Army to England, the Loyal
Nobility and Gentry of Nidsdale and Annandale being met
for hasting out Recruits of Horse and Foot for His Majesties
service, were assaulted by an English Commander one Major
Scot son to the famous Brewers Clerk Thomas Scot a stickling
Member of the Rump-Parliam : of England and one of the
Regicides, who after His Matles Restitution, did receive the
reward of a bold & bloudy Traitour. Albeit this Major Scot
was Commander of fourteen score of experienced Horsemen,
yet the Noblemen and Gentlemen did resolve valiantly to
abide their charge, though much inferior in number, and by
a Party of 86 or 40 Horse commanded by Ro* Ferguison
of Craigdarroch, the English forlorn-hope being a greater
number was stoutly and resolutely charged, broken and beaten
into their Body with the loss of severall of the English, &
none of his Party. Thereafter the Noblemen & Gentlemen
£S8. being led by Sir John Charteris of Ampfeild Knight, did
charge the Body of the English, when it came up : but being
inferiour in number and many of their Souldiers being not
weel trained, they were forced to retire. The Mfiister of
Herris then, and of late the Earle of Nidsdale was wounded
by a shot in the arm, and though some of the English, yet
none of the Loyal Party were killed in the Fight, but some
were killed in the Retreat, who being denied Quarters because
they could not instruct themselves to be Commissionate
Officers or listed Souldiers, were barbarously murdered, among
which a young Gentleman R* Maxwell of Tinnell was one.

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Some others of Quality being and avouing themselves souldiers
'had Quarter granted them, and were taken prisoners.

On the Southside of Nith lyeth the Parish of Kire, of old
A Pendicle of the Abbacy and a part of the Parish of Holy-
wood, & since the Reformation, served by a Substitute, who
supplied both places in the absence of the Minister, but lately
-divided from it & erected in a Parish by itself, and afterwards
annexed to the Presbytery of Penpont. This Parish is divided
from Tinron and Penpont upon the West part of it, by the
Waters of Chinnell and Scarr & on the South part by a ridge
•of Mountains from Glencarne, and on the Northside by the
Rivers of Scarr & Nith from the Parish of Dalgamo, and on
the East from the Parish of Dinscore by Alintoun Bum. It
is a place fertile for Corns and Cattell and richly stored with
Wood. The upper part of it belongs to John Grierson of
Kepinoch and some Tenements that pertain to the Earle of
Nithsdale. The nether part of it pertains to John Grierson
of Berjarge and several other Heritours. Here is a deep Loch
called the Loch of Kilbread in a place pertaining to the Laird
of Lagg, but the water is not reputed medicinal.

9. Ninthly there is the Parish of Morton belonging of old B-^9.
to the noble Euries of Morton, and from which they have
their Title ; a small Parish, sometimes one of the Churches of
Kelso, but now at the presentation of the Duke of Queens-
berry. It is on the North west side divided from Dursdeer by
the Water of Carren, on the Westside by the River of Nith
from the Parish of Penpont, on the South and southeast side
from the Parish of Dalgamo and Closeburn by the Water
of Campell, and on the East and Northeast side from Crawford
Lindsay in Clidesdale. The whole Parish, excepting two
small Tenements pertains to the D. of Queensberry. On the
south side of this Parish near to a little Village called Thorn-
hill, there is erected a Burgh of Regality called New Dalgamo,
where there is a weekly Mercat & four Fairs in the year; at
which Burgh is the publick Meeting place for Jurisdiction of
the Regality of Drumlanrig called the Regality of New
Dalgamo, where Criminal and Civil Courts are holden by the
Baillie of the Regality as occasion requires. The Parish
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after a Perambulation, for many weighty reasons is recom-
mended to be erected at or near this place. On the Northside
of this Parish stands the old Castle of Morton which of old
hath been a very Strong Hold : but it is not certainly known
by whom it was built at first It was kept by Sir Tho^
Handulph E. of Murray in the Minority of David Bruce, and
afterwards suffered to go to Ruine by the Earles of Morton,
who had other Castles to take care of. Near to this Castle
there was a Park built by Sir Thomas Randulph on the face
of a very great and high Hill so artificially, that by the
advantage of the Hill, all wild Beasts, such as Deer, Harts
and Roes and Hares, did easily leap in, but could not get out
again ; and if any other Cattle, such as Cows Sheep or Groats^
did voluntarily leap in, or were forced to it, it is doubted if
their Owners were permitted to get them out again.
£30, 10. Tenthly, there are the united Parishes of Dalgarno and
Closburn both divided on the West and North West side
from the Parish of Closburn by the Rivulet of Campell and on
the South and Southeast side from the Parish of Kirkmaho,
and on the North and Northeastside by the Rivulet of Brain
springing out of Queensberry Hill, a great Hill, from whence
the Duke hath his Title, which conjoining with another
Rivulet called Keeple makes the Water of Ay, which divides
from the Parish of Eirkmichael. In the upper part of it;^
that part of Dalgarno called Keeple Water, consists of four
Rooms, pertaining to the Duke of Queensberry, more fertile
for Cattel then for Corns. Below that part of Dalgarno there
lyeth an eight pound Land in the Parish of Closburn pertain-
ing to the D. of Queensberry and a five pound Land belonging
to the Laird of Cowhill and a fourty shilling Land belonging
to Captain John Alison Baillie of the Regality of Drumlanrig ;.
all divided from Kirkmichael by the Water of Ay, A part of
the Parish of Dalgarno, lying along the river Nith hath in it
the lands of Templeland and Kirkland of Dalgarno, where the
Kirk stands now ruined ; and below is the five pound Land of
Schaws, the ten merk land of Eirkpatrick and Liftingstone^
where stands the Chappel of Kilpatrick, called Cella Patricii ;
next unto which down the River is a ten pound Land pertain-
ing to the Baron of Closburn, where hath been a Chappel and

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a Trench for keeping of a Pass at that place, which ten pound
Land marches with the lands of Clawghries pertaining to
John Johnston, and the Lands of Over & Nether Algirth,
which are the utmost extent of Dalgamo. On the North
West side of Closbum and Dalgamo, there is an eight pound
Land of Newtoun, pertaining in property to Sir Robert
Dalyell of Glenay, where is an excellent Quarry of Freestone,
above which is the ten pound Land of Ahenleck pertaining
to the Laird of Closbum partly for Corn and partly for
pasturage.

11. Lastly there is the Parish of Closburn lying in the middest
of Dalgarno. In that part of Closburn towards the Water of
Ay, by which it is Inoompassed, is a fourty pound Land peiv
taining to Thomas Eirkpatrick of Closbum an ancient family ssi.
and Chef of that Name, having a Charter from Alexander K.
of Scots, granted to Ivon Kirkpatrick of the Lands and
Barony of Closburn, before Witnesses. Bondington Cancellario,
Rogero de Quency, Waltero filio Alani Senescallo Justiciario
Scotie, Joanne de Maunswell Camerario, Rogero Avenell,
David Marescallo, Thoma filio Hamil : ^ David de Lyndsay,
Rogero filio Glay, Roberto de Menyers, Dated at Edr. the
fifteenth of August and of the said Kings Reign the eight
teenth Year. Moreover the said Laird for his Arms & Ensign
Armorial bears Argent a St. Andrew'^s Cross Azure, on a Sheaf
of the second three cushions. Or above the shield an Helmet
befitting his degree Mantled Geuls doubled Argent. Next in
place on a Torse for his Crest, a Hand holding a Dagger dis-
tilling drops of bloud proper, the Motto in an Escrole, I make
sure, which Crest and Motto was given by Robert the Bruce
K. of Scots to Roger Kirkpatrick upon his killing of the Cumin
at the Chappel of Drumfreiss. This Parish of old was a
Pendicle of the Abbacy of Kelso, but now is annexed to the
Bishoprick of Galloway, as Dalgamo is to Edr. but the Laird
of Closbum is Patron to both Churches United.

Upon the Westside of this Parish, Closbum Church is
situate a litle Fabrick but well built, near unto which is the
Loch of Closbum, upon the East side whereof stands the

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Dwelling house of the Lairds of Closbum, which hath been a
considerable strength of old, by bringing the Loch of Closbum
about it, whence it is called Closburn because inclosed with
Water or Bum. This Loch is of great deepness and was
measured on the Ice eight Acres in the midst of a spacious
Bog. The fish of this Loch are for the most part Eels with
some great Pikes, who for lack of food eat up all the youo^.
At the side of this Loch there is of late discovered a fountain
of Medicinal Waters, which as Moffet Well, doth gild silver,
£3i, and produce the other eflTects thereof. It is esteemed in dry
weather stronger then Moffet Well, by reason of the greater
abundance of sulphur putridum sal ammomacum^ and Anti-
mony there, so that one cannot digg in a great part of the
Bog, but the Water such a tang as the WelL A further
Account of it is left to the Physicians when they shall have tbe
Conveniency to make a triall of it* There is also within a
mile of Closbum House another Loch called Loch Atrick, but
little remarkable about it. About the Place of Closbum a ia
other places of the Barony is some store of Oakwood. lliere
i« here also two great Kairns, the one in the Moorfield imr
from Stones, the other in the Infeiid near unto them, whence
the bounds is called Ahenkaim, which surely are two ancient
Monuments although an account of them cannot be given.

Nithsdale is divided into two Wards or Divisions^ Hie
Upper Ward oonsisteth of eleven Parishes of the Classis or
Presbytery of Penpont, which by the Union of two of them
viz : Dalgarno a Closbum of old, and by the late AnnezatioA
of Kirkconnall to Sanquhar do now make nine Parishes: bat
notwithstanding the Union and Annexation foresaid every
Parish is described here by itself.

RANFREWSHIRE.

1. This shire lying next to Clidesdale partaketh of its soil^
that part of it which lyeth near Clide being both pleasant &
fertile without Mountains, but having many pretty little Rises
of the ground, from which there are many fair Prospects both
of the greater part of this Shire and of the Nether Ward of
Clidesdale and the Lennax. The Confines of the shire to the

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South and Southwest & West bordering on a part of Glides-
dale Cunighame aiKl the mouth of Glide are more barren,
hilly and moorish. The whole of it is stored with Grass and
Com sufficient to serve its own Inhabitants except about
Greenock where there is a great confluence of people for the
Herring Fishing in its season. The Herring, though it may
more properly belong to the River of Glide, then to any shire
lying on its shore, yet of all the shires that border on Glide
this may most claim, a right unto it. The Inhabitants hereof £55.
at Greenock, Gurock, Innerkip, and Newark, making the
greatest number of fishers. The Fishing of Herrings on all
accounts hath for many years been the most noted of any in
Scotland or about it. the Fish that enter this Firth of Glide,
being larger, fairer, firmer, of a better tast, and taking better
with the salt than any other, and more valued both fresh and
salted, at home and abroad then iany other the Kingdom
affords, the number likewise being incredibly great, consider-
ing in how narrow a Firth they contain themselves. There
have been reckoned 2500 Lost which comes to 8750 Tun of
Herrings made and salted and exported in a year, beside vast
quantities which are consumed within the Gountrey. Thir
Herrings (when the Take of them is good, as hath been many
years together) being the daily food of all the shires adjacent,
especially in Harvest time ; the Fishers themselves may some
years be reckoned to consume 1400 Tun by their own eating.
Thir Herrings come together, as if they were under some
Government of their own, and swim with a great deal of
Order, as an Army marching in Battel Aray. They enter the
Firth of Glide from the Mule of Kintyre yearly sometime in
June or July. When they first enter, they frequently come
alongst the Goast of Argile, and enter the Lochs, and take
some time before they settle their principal residence. They
come so throng, that they are not only visible to the Fishers,
but in calm Weather, they will swell and move the very
Ocean. They have sometime found them on the coast of
Galloway and Garrick about Ballantrae, but more frequently
in the Lochs on Argile side, and with Glide at Greenock and
as far up as Armour, Some of them coming to the Freshes
near Dumbarton and are taken in the Yairs: but these sve ^S4.

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not reckoned the best for salting. When the Shole of
Herrings enters the firth, the Fishers gather in such number,
that five or six hundred Boats have been seen together in one
place at the Take, and all these have been seen to lode their
Boats in a day or two. The Herrings will sometime continue
till Dec' and January from June or July. The Chief time is
in July and Harvest Quarter for fishing and making. The
Royall Company for fishing did seat their Trade here, and
built an house at Greenock for that effect.

2. The most noted peculiar Rarity this Shire affords is that of
Pearls found in Water of White Cart about Paslay and above
it for three miles. Though it be not that considerable that
the Proprietor of the Land & Land adjacent claims an
Interest for them, but every person hath liberty to search for
them, yet Pearls are not only frequently here found, but of
such a fineness and magnitude as may be compared with any,
except what the Indies affords, and they are transported to
other Countreys in good parcel Is so that Tavernier the great
French Jeweller in his Travells to the East Indies, taketh
notice of them. They are found at the bottom of the Water
in a Fishes shell larger then that of the Muscle. The Fishing
is most in the summer time.

3. There are no Forrests at present in this Shire, formerly
there was a Forrest about Paslay on the South and Southeast
of it ; and another of the Ferinneis adjacent thereto, as the
account about the 1200 testify. The Countrey is well stored
with Woods, every Gentleman almost having some in his
own bounds.

235. The Nobility and Gentry are beginning to inclose and
impark some of their ground especially with stone Dikes par-
ticularly the Earl of Dundonald, where he hath plenty of
Fallow-Deer.

The Countrey is well stored with Springs, not a Countrey
house wanting them at its door, one whereof in the Lands of
Newyairds near Paslay is observable, for that it 's seen to ebb
& flow with the Tide, though it be on a far higher ground
than any place, where the Tide comes, and half a mile from
the nefiurest place of the Water of Cart, where the Tide comes.
The Countrey is very well watered with Rivers, though the

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narrowness of the Countrey doth not allow any long Course to •
swell themselves navigable. There are chiefly three, all which
have their rises on the Confines of the shire, and do mix them-
selves together at their entry into Clide within the Shire
likewise viz. the two Carts and Greiff. The Carts are dis-
tinguished by their colours into White and Black. White
Cart hath its rise out of these Moors which ly betwixt Eglis-
hame in this Shire & Evandale and Kilbride in Clidesdale,
from thence it runneth Northward and in many places is the
Border betwixt the- Shires, untill it comes within two miles
of Glasgow ; there it turneth Westward, untill it comes to
Paslay ; whence to Inchinan Northward where it both mixeth
with the two others and entereth Clide. The Tide floweth up
Clide and entereth this River as far up as the Bridge of Paslay. 236.
The Tide is reckoned to flow about three foot at Paslay, but
all fresh. This River all alongst afibrds many pleasant seats
of Houses for the Nobility and Gentry. The Black Cart
taketh its rise out of Lochquhinnoch Loch, at the mouth of
which it is many times not fordable. It runneth a straight
Course Eastward : for the most part it runneth dead & low
and through the Mosses about Blackstoun, which maketh it
Blackish. It emptieth itself into Clide near Inchinan, where it
joyneth itself to the other. Grifi^ riseth out of the Northwest
places of this Shire in Kilmacom Parish and runneth South &
Southeast, untill it mixeth itself with the other in the lower
Countrey. All the three are increased by several Waters and
Bums or Rivulets not worthy the noticing. This Griff^ gave
name to the Northerly part of the Shire, which was called
Strath Grifi^ about the year 1180 but that name is now out of
use & only preserved in the Gentries Charters.

There are no considerable Loclis, but one, Lochquhinnoch :
it ^8 about 4 miles in length, & 2 in breadth. Many Rivulets
run into it. On the West end it bordereth this Shire and
Cunighame, where it receiveth a Rivulet, which cometh out of
Eilbumy Loch in Cunighame, from which it^s distant about
2 miles. Round this Loch, there are severall Seats of Houses
and many pleasant Meadows. It ''s replenished with Fish such
as Pikes, Pearches and Eels. In the middest of this Loch
there is an old Tower called the Peel belonging to the Lord

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£57. Sempill, to which thej used to fly formerly in times of
the Feuds or of Wars. We never hear that it was besieged,
lieing a full mile from all sides. There are likewise some lesser
Lochs in the Meames and Eglishame Moors, where are plenty
of fish and a little one, called Loch Libo in Neilstoun, where
there is plenty of fish and fowl for diverse sorts of game.

4. All the Roads, Bays and Ports in this Shire are on the
River CUde. From the West end of the Shire, the firth of
elide beginneth to narrow itself, it being at the Cloch Stane,
about 4 miles in breadth, within which there are almost every-
where good riding for ships. The first Bay that openeth is
that of Innerkip without the Cloch, where there is a good
Fisher town. Then more Easterly and inward openeth a fair
Bay, at the West end whereof stands Gurock, where is a good
Road and Harbour lately built by Walter Gibson, and a Vill-
age building. Next inward stands Greenock the place of best
account on all this Coast this being the principal Harbour to
all the Glasgow Merchants and a good Road, and a well built
Town, and the chieff seat of Herring Fishing : here the Royall
Company did build ane house, and made it the seat of thdr
Trade. To this adjoyneth Crawfords dykes and hath the
same trade with that of Greenock, where good Houses are fast
building. Further and a little more southward lyeth Newark
where the Town of Glasgow have built a good Port and called
it Port Glasgow and a large publick House, sc there is
a village building. Here is the Custome house for all this
Coast, and the Town of Glasgow of late oblige their
t38. Merchants to lode and unlode here. Above Newark the River
of elide narroweth being a miles breadth over against Dum-
barton, above which ships of burden do not come ft tiie
River fresheth when the Tide is out. But Barks and Boats of
burden come up Clide to Glasgow all alongst the Coast of tins
shire and so come to Ranfrew Town. The Tide floweth up two
or three miles both the Carts and Grifl; whereby Boats come
to Paslay with Highland I'imber and Slates 6000 in a Boat;
Fidi of all sorts ft return with Coals and Lime. The Coast
all alongst is very safe, it being very rare to hear of any Loss
of Vessels within the Cloch, which is most ordinarily reckoned
in the innermost mouth of Clide. The Tide at Greenock

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flows 12 foot, within the Harbour at Giirock 18 foot, at
Newark 12 foot at a Spring Tide.

5. Thia Countrey being low, fertile ic adjacent to Clids-
dale, fell likewise under the Roman Arms and as I take it, did
set a bound to their Conquest. The Romans never having
past the Firth of Glide to j^jrgile-shire, and the old Caledonian
Wood came to the border of this Shire, it having reached the
Lennox or Dumbarten Shire on this hand, as it did Stirling
Shire and to Forth on the other hand. But that the
Romans came this length, is more then probable for as there
are in many places from the one end of Clidesdale to the other,
visible und^iiable vestiges for whole miles of way together of S39,
an old Roman Street from Erickstone in the head of Eusdale
to Mauls Mire at this end where it bordereth this Shire (called
this day Watlin Street corruptly for Vitellian or VitelHus
Street) so there are continued vestiges of their being in this
shire : for at Pasley there is a large Roman Camp to be seen.
The Prsetorium or Innermost part of the Camp is on the West
end of a rising ground or little Hill called Oakshawhead ; on
the southeast descent of which Hill standeth the Town of
Paslay. The Prsetorium is not very large, but hath been well
fortified with three Foussees and Dikes of Earth, which must
have been large, when to this day their vestiges are so great,
that men on horseback will not see over them. The Camp
itself hath been great and large, it compreliending the whole
HilL There are vestiges on the Northside of the Foussee and
Dike whereby it appears that the Camp reached to the River
of Cart. On the Northside, the Dike goeth alongst the foot
of the Hill and if we allow it to have gone so far on the other
side, it hath enclosed all the space of ground on which the
Town of Paslay stands and it may be Judged to be about
a mile in compass. Its situation was both strong and pleasant
overlooking the whole Countrey. I have not heard that any
have been so curious as to digg the ground into the Prsetorium,
but when they tread upon it, it gives a sound, as if it were
hollow below, where belike there are some of their Vaults.
Near to this Camp, about a quarter of a mile stand two other
Rises, or little Hills, the one to the West, the other to the 240.
South which with this makes almost a triangular form, where

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have been stations for the outter Guards. The Vestiges of
them appear, and make them a little laiger then the Pne-
torium of the other Camp of the same forme without any
other fortification then a single Fossee and Dike. At Lang-
side there is the appearance of an old Camp on the top of the
Hill, where was fought that Memorable Battel betwixt Queen
Mary and R^ent Murray 1567.

6. Midway betwixt Pasley and Ranfrew at the Knock is a
high Cross standing, but no Inscription is legible. Tradition
hath handed it down that it was erected on this occasion.
Marjorie Bruce daughter of K. Robert Bruce, & Wife to
Walter the great Stewart of Scotland, at that time Lord of all
this Countrey, was hunting at this place and got a fall, and
she being big with child of her son Robert afterward
K. Robert the Second, fell in labour and there died in the
field, and as Tradition will have it, the Child was a Caesar cut
out of his Mother s Womb, and had his eye touched by the
Chirurgeon, from which he was called King Blear-eye and his
Mother is by the Tradition called Queen Blear-eye, though she
was never Queen, and this Cross is called Queen Blear-eyes
Cross. This fell out about the year 1S17, and she is buried at
Paslay.

7. The Inhabitants of this Shire, both Nobility, Grentry and
Commons, are generally frugall, love to keep at home. The

J41- Gentry are given to all manly sports as Hunting, Hawking,
and Gunning, are friendly among themselves, & their families
in constant Aflinity by Marriages one with another.

8. In relation to the Church, this Shire under Popery was
& is still within the Diocese of Glasgow and in the time of
Presbytery, made up a Presbytery or Class, in which are 15
Parish Churches, each Church being well provided with a Manse
and Benefice for one Minister, and Paslay for two. llie
Parishes are Egglishame, Neilstoun, Meams, Eastwood, Ran-
frew, Pasley, Inchinan, Lochquhinnoch, Kilbarchan, Sallellan
Howstoun, Erskin, Kilmacolm, Greenock and Innerkip. The
Churches are well built, yet none of them worth the noticing
except that of Paslay.

In the time of Popery there were no Monasteries except
Paslay, which was a very considerable Abbacy. Our Historians

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have generally reckoned it to have been founded by Alex' the
great Steward about the Year 1260. But they have been in a
great Mistake. The Charter of the Foundation being extant
runs thus, WaUerus JUius Alani Dapifer Regis Scotias pro
nnima Regis David^ ei Regis Henrici et Comitis Henrici et
pro sabde corporis et animce Regis Maicolmi gives such lands
to 13 Monks, who were to be Ordinis frairum de Wenloch^
Ordinis Monachorum Cbiniacensium. By which it appears to
have been founded by Walter the Second great Steward or
Dapifer Regis Maicolmi Qiiarti called the Maiden about the
year 1160. This Abbacy was so augmented by the Great
Stewards, that the Teynds of the greater part of this Shire and ^^^
of Kyle belonged to it. The Earles of Lennox and the Lords
of the Isles were great Benefactors to it. There were 82
Churches under its Patronage to wit Innerweek in Lothian,
Lidgert Wood in the Merse, Rutherglen Sc Cathcart in
Clidesdale, Riccartoun, Craigie, Dundonald, Monktoun, St
£vox, Prestick, Affleck, the Chappel of Closbie in Kyle, Largs
in Cunighame, Cumray in Boot, Eilpatrick in Lennox, Ros-
neth, Kilcolmanell, Eilkinan, and Eilkerran in Argile Shire,
Mearns, Eastwood, Neilstoun, Paslay, Kilbarchan, Lochquhin-
noch, Killellane, Houston, Kilmacolm, Innerkip and Greenock
in this Shire. The Abbacy was well built, fair and large, and
pleasantly seated on the River Cart in a good soyl. The
Buildings are yet remaining and shew forth much of the
magnificence and luxury of that Religion. There was a stately
Cross Church built and a steeple, which was one of the greatest
in the Kingdom : but about 100 years ago, the steeple fell
with its own Weight : and with it the Quire of the Church.
The Chancel only is now standing and is a very fair Building,
and is indeed one of the most convenient and large Houses for
hearing that can be. The Inscription on the Porch tells us
that this Church was built 1400. The Abbey and Church
with all its fair Gardens and Orchards and a little Park for
Fallow Deer are enclosed within one of the Fairest Walls, not
in this Kingdom only, but in Europe and perhaps in the
World. It is altogether built on both sides, of large squared 243.
Freestone, so well that there is no appearance of Lime in the
Wall, and it will be a full mile about and of a great height :

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It was the Work of many Years. The InscriptioDs upon it^
shew it to have been begun by Scfaaw Abbot here about

1483.

The Monks of this Abbacy wrote a Chronicle, which was-
continued by them, the Authentick Copy whereof perished,,
when the Abbey of Haljrrood house was burned during the
English Usurpation, it being then in the Kings Bibliotheck -^
but there are some Copies and Compends of it. There is*
extant a Register of all the Charters granted to the Abbacy,,
which together with the Charters themselves are preserved.
After the Reformation, this Abbacy was given to Lord Claud
Hamilton third son to James D. of Chattelerault, whose
posterity sold it to the E. of Dundonald who is present Owner
of it. This Abbacy was honoured by being the Burial-place of
K. Robert the Second and of his Mother Marjorie Brucre^
whose Gravestone is to be seen cut out in the shape of a
Woman.

9. There is no Shire in Scotland of its bounds, where more
Noble Families have been both of the greatest Nobility and
Grentry.

Of the Nobility this Shire may justly claim to have been
the seat of the Noble Family of the Stewarts who were Lords
of this Countrey. And this Shire was then Baronia de
W' Ranfrew, and the Steward of Scotland was Baro de Ranfrew,
Our Historians have much erred in the Grenealogy of this
Noble Family which is very evident by the Charters extant in
the Abbacy of Paslay, where we find the Line of the Family
thus Bancho, &:c,

Description of the BURGH and OLI>
PRIORY of PETTINWEEM.

The Burgh of Pettinweem was at first erected in a Burgh of
Regality by E. James the first in the Year 1443, thereafter
confirmed by E. James the fifth, conform to a Charter under
the great Seal dated at St. Andrews 24 Feb. 1540, with ample
privileges, and conforme to a Charter granted by John Rule
Prior of Petinweem and St. Adrians Island of May which lyeth

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in the mouth of the River of Forth, relative to the saids former
Charters dated 12 Feb. 1547. The Privileges of the Burgh
are very amply set down, and all the Commonties, Common
Moors and Mosses disponed to the Town for the common
Use. And thereafter the same was by King James the Sixth
erected in a Burgh Royal, which was ratified in E. Charles the
first his Parliament anno 16S3, by which their Privileges are
fully extended as to any other Burgh Royal within the King-
dom doth appertain, with Weekly Mercats and two yearly
Fairs, viz : St. Adrians Fair S March and St Mary Magdalens
2S July and the bounds of the Burgh designed to be a mile be
East and a mile be West the Town.

The Charters give power to elect yearly a Provest, four «^.
Baillies, Dean of Gild, Treasurer, and Common Councill. But
the Burgh hath always been governed by four Baillies, whereof
two sea-faring men, and other two Merchants, which with the
Treasurer and Common Councill consisting of nineteen are
yearly elected on the first Tuesday of September past memory
of man.

The Burgh is well situate and built. The nether part
towards the sea^ lyeth along from the East to the West
Havens. There is also another Haven called the Pan Haven
on the West part of the Burgh. The upper part of the Town,
hath a fiur Street from East to West.

Near the East end thereof stands the Church well decored
with a pretty Steeple, having on the Southside thereof the
Tolbooth and Grammar School, and on the Northside the
Cross with a Chappel dedicated to the Virgin Mary from
which that Street going to the East Port is called the Mary
Gate.

The Town is well watered with abundance of excellent fresh
Water springing forth of Rocks in all the Vennals.

A little to the south east of the Church stands the Abbey,
well built about with a stone wall. In it stands the Principall
House with the Office houses built about the Close, pertaining
to the Earl of Kellie as Lord of the erected Lordship of
Pittinweem who hath right to the Fews, Teynds, Coal and d^e.
Salt. This Abbey was erected by K. Alexander the first
Anno 1112 and had many lands thereto belonging. The

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Burghs of Pettlnweem and Anstruther Wester ly within the
Limits of the Old Abbacy and all the I^nds lying a mile be
East, and a mile be West the Town Sc Northward three or
four miles, severall Lands ly which belong to it. There are
also several Lands lying within the Sheriffdoms of Ed',
Berwick, Perth, and Forfar, with the Islands of May, which
lyeth in the Mouth of the River of Forth. In this Island,
there is a Chappel called St. Adrian^s Chappell, where that
Saint, (who was of old Patron of Pettinweem) was murthered
by the Danes and buried. There is a Lighthouse upon that
Island, which in the night time is very comfortable giving
great light to all ships coming in and going forth of the
Rivers of Forth and Tay, and all places betwixt St. Ebb's
head and Redcastle, New Montrose. This Abbay was long
ago erected in a Temporal Lordship, Baillerie and Regalitie
with ample Priviledges and the Laird of Anstruther, who is
Heritable Baillie of the said Baillerie, and his Deputes keep
three Head-Courts yearly, whereunto all the Noblemen, Gentle-
^^". men and other Heritours of Lands lying within the said
Baillerie are called and answer. Courts for Civil and Criminal
are kept within the Tolbooth of the Burgh of Pettinweem
Head Burgh of the Regality at all occasions to which Courts
the Burgh of Anstruther Wester also answers.

The Jurisdiction of the Heritable Bailie and Magistrates of
the Burgh are distinct and several.

The Ensigns Armorial of this Burgh, as one of the Royal
Burrows of Scotland are these — Azure in the Sea a Galley with
her Oars in Action Argent ; wherein is standing the figure of
St. Adrian with long garments close girt, and a Mitre on his
head Proper, holding in his sinister hand a Crosier Or ; on the
stern a Flag disveloped Argent, chained with the Royal Arms
of Scotland with this motto : Deo dace.

At a full stream there is fourteen foot Water in the principal
Harbour, where ships come in and ly.

At a Neip eight or nine foot ; at no time below 8. south
south west flowings or an hour & a half past twelve a Clock.

The Streik of the harbour in, is North northeast, and out
South southwest.

At ingoing keep the Beacon on Larboard side a Eempstone

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Bar free, and you have the Peirhead upon the Sterboard, a
little within the Beacon A: a large open and safe Harbour, Sc
within the ground very good.

The Road is good, the distance an English mile, the ground
sand the depth twelve or fourteen fathoms, the top of Kellie-
law a little be West the Town the Meaths. There are no i^s,
blind Rocks but one which at a Neip-tide will have fourteen
foot Water above it. The Meaths of it are the top of Kellie-
law to the White Rock called the Shield be West the Town,
and the top of Eincraig Heuch to the Chappel of old Ardross.

The principal Harbour is called the East Haven ; the other
Harbour, where the Fish boats ly at the West end of the
Town, is called the West Haven, where the Fishes that are
taken dayly are landed, and the Herrings that are taken in
the treath at the Lamb Mass time.

There is another Haven called Pan-Haven, which is con-
venient for Boats, where they may be furnished with good
Coal and Salt.

Description of STORMONT, GOURIE and
the adjoyning parts of ANGUS, by J. A.

Stormont is that part of Perthshire which lyes betwixt the
Rivers Tay, Yla & Erich and hath upon the North and North
East, Athol and Strath Erich.

It is a mixed Countrey, the over part being Hills and that
towards the Rivers plain. It aboundeth in Com and is well
planted.

There are a Tract of Lochs, which pass through the midle
of this Countrey. At the Over and North part of this
Countrey are three Lochs called the Cairny Lochs, or the
Lochs of the Lows separate each from other by a narrow track
of Land. They abound in fishes especially Fearches of an
incredible bigness. And upon the North side of the East
Loch, remain the mines of an huge Building, being the Castle
and Dwelling of King Robert the Second, who gave the
adjacent Lands to his natural Brother, whose successours yet
possess the same. From these Lochs issues a smcJl Water
called Lunin which after two miles Course Eastward falls into

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the liodi of danie a pleasant Loch, half a mile in lengih, and
near at mDch in breadth, near whoae midle, vp«m a small Isle,
stands a great and well built House belofnging to
f^. LimiD passeth from this Loch, and a litle below fUls into
Dmmylie Lodi, then the former Loch, from which it passeth
by the Whjtlochs, befaig three small ones and meets Yla at
Bandnie.

The considerable Families, which were in ^s Coxmtrey,
were Herons Lairds of Lethmtie, Dnimonds of Blair, Batters
of Gormoch. The Families now Pb sacas o u T S are Messers of
Adie, Steuarts of Blair, of Lows and Billend, Chmie ; fflairs
of Ardblair, Lethintie, Glasolonn & Pettindrich, Kynlodi of
Gourdie.

There are five Parishes in this Countrey.

The things remarkable are Circles of great stones, ordinarily
twelve in number, whereof several in tiM Moor of Blair.

Betwixt the Stormont and the Braes of Gourie, upon the
Rivers Tay, Yla and Erich, lyeth a pleasant and plain Coon-
trey abounding with Corns well planted, replenished. With
many Houses of Nobility and Gentry. It is a part of Strath-
moor, and borders Perthshire with Angus.

The considerable families in this Countrey are Halyburton
of Pitcurr, Ramsay of Bamff, Ratro of Ratro, C. Kinlodi of
Bandoch, Campbells of Balgershoi Cmnren and KeithicdL,
Fullertoun of Fullertoun, Murray of Artinirstone.

In this part of Perthshire are ten Parishes, one whereof is
a Presbytery-seat ^iz : Meigle.

Monuments and remarkable things in this Countrey are the
Stones at Meigle cut with several Eigures and Hieroglyphicks
said to be the Burial-place of Queen Vandora, who had her
Dwelling three miles North upon a Hill called Barraj. The
Raines yet remain, and shew it to have been a huge Building
of stone. About a mile below this South, at the confluence of
a little Water with the River Yla, upon a Rock are yet
remaining intire several Vaults suimounted by the huge
Ruines of a great and strong Castle called the Quich or
Inverquich a house of King William the Second.
tSO, The Fishing of the Keith a little above the £h*k of Blair,
where the Water Yla falleth fi*om a steep Rock into a narrow

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Trough betwixt Rocks, not above five foot separate, in which
are several deep hcdes, whence men standing on the brink of
the Craig, with a little round net fixed to the end of a long
Pole, take a Considerable number of Salmon. Above a mile
above this, close on the Water Erich is the strong and strange
Hoase of Craighall or Ratro, built on a little Rock steep on
all sides, and about seventy fathoms of a perpendicular height
toward the Water. It is disjoyned from the adjacent grounds
and entered by a Draw-Bridge.

Considerable Rivers and Waters are Yla, which comes from
Glen-Yla, passetk by Airly, Ruthven and Couper, and enters
Tay at Eindevin a great Building, as the Ruines yet remain-
ing sbew, and belonging to the Kings. The Water Erich
coming from Strath Erich passeth by Blair Kirk, and enters
Yla at Couper-Grange.

Towns in this Countrey are Couper a Burgh of Regality,
whose HeritaUe Lord is the Earle of Airly. Here was a great
and stately Abbey now in Ruines ; scarce the Vestigia with
some Bases of the Pillan of the great Church remain, where
is yet to be seen the Burial place of the Earles of Errol. The
Abbey is seated in Angus and the Town in Perthshire, and
they aze disjoyned by a small Water. The Next Town to
Couper is Eliot a amall Mercat Village belonging to the Earle
of Airly.

An Account of BUCHAN & what is re-
markable therein.

1. All that Countrey in old time was called Buchan, which
lyeth betwixt the Rivers Don and Diveran. The first emptieth
itself into the Ocean at Old Aberdeen, the other at the Town
of Bamff. Bat now genoally what is betwixt Don and Ythen
is called Formartin, and that only hath the name of Buchan,
which is found betwixt Ythen and Diveran. The mouth of
Ythen is some 1£ or 14 miles more Northwards then Don, and tsi,
from that to Diveran along the Sea Coast will be about 36

mi lea.

2. This Countrey is neither altogether high nor levell, but
rather a mixture of both. Towards the head it is somewhat

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an Hill Countrey but downward to the Sea, it is more low and
plain, without any considerable Risings, except that of More.-
mouth a great Hill within some 6 miles of Frazerburgh,
That Land which lyeth along the Sea-Coast is generally
a Clay Soil, the rest for the most part is Moss and Moor, full
of Bogs and Marishes.

3. At present, there is little or no planting here except
about Gentlemens Dwelling-houses, and but little of that too.
Yet it seems to have been otherwise of old : for not only aged
persons tell of considerable Woods that have been in this
Countrey ; but also the stumps of the Trees are in some places
still to be seen, and in all the Mosses are found Trees, which
the Countrey-people digg out both for fewel and other Uses.
The Trees which they find, are not all of one kind : they be
some Birch, some Oak, some Elm, & some Fir. They will
be many foot under ground, but when they are taken out very
fresh, only wanting the Bark. In the dewy mornings when the
ground will be wet with dew, it will yet be dry above where
the Tree lyeth, so that the people know where to digg for
them, and before hand will be able to tell what foot the Tree
is of, and how many branches it hath. This seems strange
indeed, but I had it reported to me for a truth by severall
Gentlemen and other understanding persons among the
Commons.

4. The Soil, where it is well laboured, is generally fertile
enough and might be better improven, had they the benefit of
Lime & such like for manuring it. About the Coast side,
they make much use of Sea- ware for dunging the Land ; in
other places they cast Fail in one peice of ground and lay it on

i6t another. And because they have plenty of Moss sc Moor ;
they often car and burn them, and in such burnt Land, they
will have incredible increase, 16 or 20 Bolls, after one Boll»
sowing.

6. All kinds of Grain grow here, which grow anywhere else
within the Kingdom ; but yet there are but small quantities
of Wheat & Pease sown. The Commons generally are
ignorant of the Use and benefit of this last Grain, which
is the reason, they so much neglect it. The Grain, which
grows most plentifully is Oats, some of which, they have

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good and fair; but they have another sort again, long^
small ft very black, which strangers would hardly give to
their Horses ; and yet the Inhabitants make very good meal
thereof. Sometimes they sow Bear, and reap Oats ; but it i&
not every kind of Bear that doth this, but a peculiar sort^
which is commonly called Barley-Oats.

6. There is in this Countrey, abundance of Fowl, both wild
ft tame as also all sort of Bestial, Horse, Sheep and Neat^
but all of a very small size.

7. Buchan is very well watered : for there be everywhere
plenty of Wells and Watersprings, and little Rivulets running
along the Land. But besides Diveron and Ythen, which
bound it, there is only one River to be taken notice of, viz :
Ugy some 12 miles from Ythen, which runneth about 15 or 18
miles and then disgorgeth itself into the Sea near Peterhead.
Its Head is divided into two Branches ordinarily called the
Fore and Back Water of Ugy : they unite within four or five
miles of the Mouth. In this Water there be many Salmon, so
that the F^rle Marischall, who is Proprietar, will be able
yearly to sell near about 50 or 60 Barrels.

8. This Countrey is well peopled : for all things necessary
to life are easily had here. The occupation of the Men,
whether Gentry or Comons is labouring and Husbandry :
other Trades, except what is simply necessary, are scarce plyed.
And generally all are accustomed to learn and practise so much

of these as serves their own term, that there is little encourage- 25S.
ment for Arts and Trades here. Victual then is all the Product
of this Countrey and when it giveth a good price, then it goeth
well with the Masters and Heritours, but when it is otherwise,
they are ordinarily much straitened for money. The Women
of this Countrey are mostly employed in spinning and working
of stockings and making of Plaiden- Webs, which the Aberdeen
Merchant carry over sea. And it is this which bringeth money
to the Comons, other ways of getting it, they have not.

9. There are no Royal Burghs, or Burghs of Regality in
this Countrey : but there are several Towns and Villages notour
and famous enough ; viz: Ellon, Old Deer, Turreffe, Peterhead,
Rosarty, Fraserburgh.

Ellon is a small Village belonging now to the Lairds of Water-

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toun. which stands hard upon Eytken, at which there be these
considerable and beneficial Mercats Rood -fair &. Mary Mass Fair«

Next is Old Deer, which stands upon Ugy. It belongs to
the Earle Marischall. Two of the greatest Fairs of the King-
dom hold here viz: Aikie Fair in summer, and St. Dunstan
Fair in winter. Here there stood of old a Monastery about
a Quarter of a mile from the Town ; the Ruines thereof are
still to be seen. It seems not to have had fine Buildings, but
there were many of them. Its Revenue was very considerable,
the first Founder Cumin Earl of Buchan. Their Monks were
of the Cistercian Order, and the second son to the E. Marschall,
was always Lord Commendator. Earle Greorge had the Gift
of its Lands and Rents from K. James the Sixt in compensa-
tion of the expense he was at in expeding the Marriage with
Anne of Denmark. But the Gift was but small, considering
that by the Foundation of the House, the second son was
superiour thereof.

Turrefi^ stands near to Diveran, and belongs to the Earle of
Errol. There was an Hospital of old here. Near to this
Town is Dalgety where Errol sometimes lives.
i5^. Peterhead is a sea-town erected into a Barony by the fore-
said Earle George Marischall, and his Successours are still
Superiours thereof. See the Account of Peterhead. As for
the Well that is here, it is to be remembred, that there be
several others of the same kind in other places of this Countrey
as particularly in the Parish of Old and New Deer, though
their tincture be not so high. It is High Water here, when
the Moon is direct South.

Some 12 miles from Peterhead lyes Frazerburgh, which hath
a dependance upon My Lord Saltoun, formerly the lairds of
Philorth. There is a safe Harbour here and the Shipping and
Trade of this Town is increased much of late,

Rosarty is a small little Fisher town pertaining to the Lord
Pitsligo, which he designs to enlarge, and to build a safe
Harbour thereat.

10. Buchan is neither an intire shire of itself, nor doth
it appertain all to one, but to two different Shires, that which
is besouth Ugy answers to the Sherifdom of Aberdeen and
the other side to Bamif.

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11. All Buchan belongs to the Diocese of Aberdeen, and
there be three several Presbytery Seats in it viz: Ellon, Old
Deer, Turreff.

Ellon containeth eight Parishes Methlick, Tarvas, Udny,
Foverain, Logy Buchan, Ellon, Cruden & Slains. But the
Churches of these three last only stand within Buchan, the
rest are in Formartine.

Old Deer containeth 13 Parishes all lying within Buchan
viz: Old Deer, Anchredy or New Deer, Strechin, Longside,
Peterhead, St. Fergus, Crimond, Lonmay, Rathen, Tyrie,
Frazerburgh, Pitsligo, Aberdour,

Turreff containeth the Parishes of Turreff, Monwhitter,
Fivie, Forgie, Aucherles, Drumblait, King-Edward, Forglin,
Gamrie, Ava. But they do not all belong to what is called
Buchan.

12. These Noblemen reside & have their Interests in Buchan.
Errol, whose Dwelling house is the Bowens, which is hard
upon the Sea so that its Waves will many times blow over the
House. He liveth sometimes also at Dalgety and had the 255.
Castle of Slains of old, but it is now demolished. Marischall,
whose dwelling house is Inverugy, over against which is the
Craig a fine House, but it was ruined in the late troubles,
Saltoun who lives at Philorth, and Pitsligo at Pitsligo. The
Earles of Buchan were both very ancient and very great, but
he who hath now that Title, is of late standing and hath no
fortune.

13. The things most remarkable in Buchan seem to be the
Parish of Fovery, which is wholly overgrown with sand ; and
it is said that the sand and sea is encroaching upon many
places. 2. The dropping Cave of Slains ; 3 BuUers Buchan
near to the Bowens. 4 The Well of Peterhead. 5 The
multitude of Selchs, which came in at Strabegge. 6 Eagles
who build in the Craigs of Pennan,

14. The sea-coast runs Northeast to Peterhead, which is
the Eastmost place in all Scotland, From Peterhead to
Frazerburgh it is somewhat Westerly, afterwards plat West,

15. As there are much Fish in this Coast, so Whales are seen
in it. This year one was taken at Peterhead, which had run
between two Rocks of 70 foot; and the fishers reported to

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have seen them in great Numbers. The sea cast up here the
bone called the Cuttle bone, and that blackish or brown shell
or nut wherein they ordinarily use to keep snuff.

Some few years ago at Fitsligo there was seen two Mermaids
by M' Alex' Robertson Pitsligo^s Chaplain an English man
and another person. What the other are, I know not, but
the first is known to be ingenuous. There was one also seen
in the River of Don many days together, about the beginning
of the late troubles, as severall persons yet living will attest.

A Description of PETERHEAD.

It lyes within the County of Buchan, and Sheriffdom of
Aberdeen, belonging all, save very little, to the V. Honourable
the E. Marischall.

It is bounded on the South with a Moor or Mount, that

^tf. separates it from My Lord ErroFs Lands and from the West

and Northwest by the other adjacent Land, the County of

Buchan terminating in this Parish and Town, as in a Wedge

or Promontory known better by the name of Bokeness,

This Parish is called in old Writs Peter-Eugy, the Water
Eugy washing it on the North, and is plentifull in salmon
fishing belonging to the E. Marischall.

On the East it is bounded with the Grerman Ocean, which
in the Winter seasons, rages most violently.

The Town of Peterhead was erected by George E. Marischall
(who was Commissioner to Denmark for the Marriage of the
King, the same that erected the Marschall CoUedge,) and was
erected by him into a Burgh of Barony, where on a part of
the said Town, called Key th Inch, he did erect a strong Castle,
which with the adjacent Peninsula, is the Eastmost part of
Scotland and but 70 leagues distant from the nearest parts of
Norway. In this Inch I have seen six hundred men in tents
in the time of the Rebellion, and these Rebells of the English
Nation garrisoned in it for several years.

Things remarkable are an excellent Medicinal Well, described
by that ingenious and worthy Gentleman D* Moor, a native of
Peterhead and Professor of Medicine in the Kings Colledge at

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Aberdeen. The Cures wrought by this Well are very remark-
able and many, so that I think it fit, the Magistrates of the
Town should be required to give an Account of the most
remarkable Cures done by it, and that under their Town
Clerks hand, and to keep a Register of them.

Next is the Harbour; one most comodious, which im-
bosomes itself in the said Eeyth Inch, and makes a Defence
from the East by the Inch & numerous Rocks round about.
The Inch is thinly built, but of good Buildings, these that
are, the Earles Marischall not being willing to few it to any. ti^.
Yea the foresaid George Earle Marischall was offered for this
Inch several Tuns of Grold by the Dutch, it being advantagious
for their summer fishing in the Northern Seas, and because of
its excellent situation.

The Harbour in it called Port Henry hath its name from
one Henry Middletoun in Clerkhill, who in the said E. George
his time was instrumental under the said Earle to have this
erected from an open shore to a secure Harbour ; and it hath
been by the care and pains of the late E. William and this
present Earle George brought to what it is now, to receive all
from North, East & South to their very great advantage and
security both in storm and calm.

It hath on the South side a Bay that is called the South
Road which will contain several hundreds of ships most
securely at Anchor except when the Wind bloweth from the
East.

There is a North Harbour very secure, called Saltcote hive
which from its name, together also with another place a mile
south called Salthouse head, gives me to apprehend, there
hath been Salt made in these places of old, before the erection
of the Town, to serve the Inland Countrey of Buchan.

Betwixt these two Harbours, as a Guard to the Town on
the East side, is a great tract of Rocks or great stones scattered
and are of great bigness and firm, and not condensed but
separate Whinways which doth beat back the violent surges
of the sea. Along this tract of Rocks runs a violent Tide
very impetuous called Trot- Valley, that several Mariners, who
have b€^ great Travellers, have admired its impetuosity in
most fair Weather.

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In this Town is one of the best Fishings that is on the
North Coast, for all white fish, except Herrings, and they
have a singular skill in fishing, so that their Fishes are a
Proverb in the Nation.

The Inhabitants are very Civil and discreet to all strangers
and very helpfull in times of shipwrecks or other dangers and
t58, give all possible aid, and supply to all that arrive at their
Coasts.

This Town after its first erection, did number twenty sail
of good ships belonging to itself altogether, and were employed
by the Merchants of Edr. for conveying the granaries of
Caithness, Sutherland and Ross to the south land: but by
the ruine of the Bulwark, their number decayed though now
again they are repairing their losses.

It is to be observed, that the English, when they had
founded their Cittadells of Inverness, Air, Leith &® coming to
see the stance and site of this place, were much greived for not
seeing it sooner, it being most commodious for a Cittadell or
Garrison ; and to have been improved to an excellent Port to
the Eastern seas.

There are several ships built here, of one or two Decks, and
have all the properties of good sailing, which are set upon
Stocks in the said Inch, and are lanched thence very easily.

This Inch every 24 hours is twice environed with the sea,
and so makes a pleasant Peninsula.

It is a very pleasant & healthfuU air, and very serene, with-
out Fogs or Mists, though it be imbosomed in the German
Ocean, and all the Canicular days, almost, ye will find a gentle
breath of North East Wind from off the sea to cool the heat
on the Mainleuid.

It is remarkable, that two ships, one coming from Fifeness
and another from Cromarty, may come with one and the same
Wind viz: Westerly, and arrive here at one and the same
instant; and can go no further either Southward or North-
ward. Which ariseth from the situation of this Town, which
draws into the form or fashion of a Tongue or Wedge from
Taymouth and Murray firth, and casts the Countrey or Main-
land into the form of a Triangle in all well drawn Mapps.

These things with many others are noticeable, which the

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Magistrates should be required to give account of. I have-
set this down, & appeal to all the Skippers of the South
Firth for the verity of the premises.

Description of the Parish of DUNOTIR ^^

The Parish of Dunotir, alias St. Brigid the Tutelar Saint
thereof, but denominate now from the most eminent thing in
it, viz: the Castle of Dunotir. It is very probable, that the
Family of the Keyths having gained their Honours at the
Sands of Barry, which was at that time in the Parish of Pan-
bride, where St. Brigid was worshipped ; were obliged to' an
Annual Vow or Oblation, and to make a greater Compensation
to that Saint, seeing they had no Dwelling contigue to Pan-
bride, they erected this Church in their own territory to St
Brigid, and gave the denomination to the same, as a Stone of
an ells height four square, with the Keyths Scutcheon on the
one side & -(-. B. ARA on the other and some Letters
mouldered away, on the third, may insinuate. This stone
being taken from the Altar, was erected in the said Church
and now stands two furlongs from the said Church in a Enow
called the Musehillock. The Buriall place of the Earles
M arischall, being a large Vault and an Isle cieled above, and
decored with Scutcheons of the deceased Worthies joyns to
the Wall of this Church.

In this Parish the things that are remarkable, beside the
ordinary products of the ground. Bear, Oats, Wheat, Rie,
Pasturage Timber of several sorts, are —

1. That the great Strath or Strathmore, begins here at
Stonehy ve 'twixt it and Cowy and ascends in a long tract to
the How of the Merns and terminates some say at St. John-
stoun, others at the West Sea.

S. There is a Loch called the Loch of Lumger, that never
dries and abounds with fishes and little Islets of Rushes, where
great companies of sea-fowls do build, and which is a receptacle
for swans in the Winter time.

8. The Castle of Dunotir famous in this Nation for its great
strength natural and artificial. The name Dunotir as I have

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i60. from a Gentleman that is well skilled in the Highland Idiom
D.F., sounds thus ; Dun, a Fort, O, Low or laich, and Tir
a Countrey which is together, the Fort in the Low Countrey.
This designation the old Scots gave it, who lived above Stra*
quhan, and upwards, when they spoke of it. Its situation
is sixteen miles from Montross & twelve miles from Aberdeen.
There is from St. Fiacres Bay, that lyeth South the Girdleness,
a whole Coast of Rocks, which the Seamen call an Iron Coast ;
and of great height, all along to the shore of Cowy, where the
Bay ccdled Stonebay or Stonehive is situate, and immediately
on the Southside of the Harbour of Stonehive, begins again
a great tract of Rocks to the Water of Bervy, which boundeth
the Parishes of Dunotir, Caterline and Kinieff towards the
East : In the great Coast of Rocks that makes Creeks, Capes,
Promontories and Noses into the Sea, upon one great Rock
and of a vast Circumference is situate the Coast and Fort of
Dunotir, which very easily might be made an Isle with small
pains ; a very small neck of ground before the Gates, being
taken away, the two Bays that wash the South and North side
of this Rock would meet. To this Castle we go down a Pend
from the Continent or firm ground which it seems, hath been
digged and made passable and is laid with a Causey.

In your entry, as ye make to the gate, on your right hand,
stands a huge Rock called the Fiddle, of near fourty ells
height, and as it would seem, still threatning to fall on
you, which is a very strange Jamb, and is as ye would think,
an infinite number of brown firm Whinstones souldered with
a firm gravelly Cement ; that I think it could by great violence
be rendered into these smaller portions. But who have not
seen it, will look on this as a Paradox, it is so vast a bulk
and firm.

Entring the gate, four or five abrace can go up the Pend,
f6L which is somewhere vaulted, and otherwhere open, and after
a turning, two or three, if I remember well, we come to the
Area or an excellent plot of green ground, from which, leaving
the Vaults behind you on both your hands as ye come from the
Gate, ye may enter to the old work, the midle work, and the
new work.

The old work is seven stories high ; and from the battlement

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<down to the foot of the Rock, where the. Sea washes, it's
A great downward look and will be above thirty House height
from the Sea to the Battlement. I omit the number and
order of Rooms. It is four Square built and of thick walls.

In the Midle Work is the Ammunition House, Forestairs,
^uid large Lofts, all the Building being two stories high. On
the East are situate Guns Brass and Iron, and a little plot of
s, yard, wherein are Potherbs ; and other things that endure
the proximity of the seas. Next a Church demolished by the
English in the days of Cruelism and Cromvelism.

Twixt the Church and the new Work are large Rooms,
Amongst which is a Closet that kept the famous Library,
which belonged to that Honourable Family, which also suffered
prejudices by the Rebels.

The King's Chamber.

The Black Stock, being an ancient Badge or Tessera
HospUaUs of the Liberality and Charity of that renowned
Family, that I believe Eeyth and the Blackstock are very
reciprocal Terms.

The Hall, a Dining room very large, and a statelier thing
than all this, is the long Gallery curiously cieled with Oak
and after a very rich form, excellently lighted and in the end
of it, a stone in the middest of the Wall, taken out of Adrian's
Wall, as in the end of these Papers, is to be seen. At the back
of the Gallery to the West, as it were to defend from the
Continent a great plot for Guns. Within the Close, is a large
Cistern more then thirty Cubits about, to which of old the ^i.
Water was Conveyed by Pipes. And it is declared as a truth,
that while the English held Garison there, it stopped and
after a long time, the late Earle Marischall coming in, while
they kept Garison the Well sprung, and they came and told
the Govemour, at which the Earle said Well Gentlemen, this,
I see, know me to be Master. It springs now without any
artificial help, never, dries and contains a large quantity of
Water.

Many mo things might be here related : for it is rather
a village of Dwellings than one Dwelling. It is a Palace and
a Fort, and will contain in well built Vaults under ground.

234 DUNOTIR

a thousand men. Of this Dwelling and Fort one thus
writes ; Viderat Hadriacis &«

What Sanazar of Venice spake so proad^

Is here at large ; though Fame be not so loud

To found the Wonders of the Borean Coast^

Yet we of Natures Work, may make our boast ;

Neptune doth kiss the foot of this great Fort ;

.^^lus environs it in powerful! sort :

Mars bellow round upon its Walls in Thunder,

It's marvellous above, more in the Cells that's under.

It scorns the sea, and doth triumph upon it ;

It mocks the Liand, and stands a distance from it :

Who doubts the same, come see, for I do cease

Only it 's fitter far for War then Peace.

The Regal Honours were secured here by the pains and
diligence of the £. of Kintore, and this was their last Refuge
of Defence. But by the sufferings and hazard of the said
worthy Earle when they behoved to be transferred, they went
to the Church of Kinneff in the M ems, and were there pre-
served till the Owner Our gracious Soveraign his Return,
fKS. which may give us to observe that Soveraignty and Honours
their last and best Refuge, when Forts, Arms and Castles fail,
is the Church and Religion.

4. In the foresaid tract of Rocks South from Dunotir i»
Fowlsheuch, called so from the multitude of sea fowls, besides
a Hawk of an excellent kind, that is berried yearly there.
The number & variety of these Fowls that nestle, hatch &
are taken there yearly, is very remarkable, the Earle Maris-
chall maintaining a man with several others, that go down
twice a day ^twixt May & August & that in the first
moneth for Eggs, and the remainder of the time for the Birds
called Kittiwaikes, a delicious meat, which the Countrey buyes
from the said mem, that hazards down with a Tow about him ;
after that he hath served the E. Marischall, whose is the Rock
and the Whole Parish. It is very remarkable besides, which
they tell, that the Coots and Cotterkins, who lay these Eggs
foresaid, have as is affirmed, but one Egg, and have it in a
posture of standing straight on their shelves, which, if removed,
can never be fixed so again. Besides this, I have seen in the
Moneth of Aprill, an infinite number of these fowls called

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Kittiwaikes come to a Marish above the Heuch and there with
Claws and Nebs, carry home mire and moss & build there-
with, and the whole day ye shall not miss one squad going and
another coming in a most regular & peaceable way; and if
any let fall their burden, they go not back, but without
disordering the rest, they all go home, and come altogether
again. The Countrey Gentlemen and from severall Shires
come hither in Summer and divert themselves in beholding
these pleasant numbers of flying Fowls and Sea-birds that
are here in greater numbers than any one known part that
we hear of.

In this long tract of Rocks 'twixt Stonehive and Inverbervy
especially in four miles of length, which belongs to the Earle
Marischall as we pass by boat ; the Creeks, Rocks and Galleries,
Caves & Promontorys that we behold, are most pleasant, ^4'
and of a vast height from the surface of the Sea : Among
the rest, one pleasant place, called the Ladies Gallery, We
sail through, which is vaulted by hand of Nature to admira-
tion, and yeilds a most grave and delectable Eccho to a
Trumpet or a Song.

6. The Town and Harbour of Stonehive, where is the Seat of
Justice for the Shire, a spatious and large Tolbooth of two or
three stories, a rich Quarry of excellent stones on the Southside
of the Harbour, a Salmon Fisching on the Northside, belonging
to the E. Marischall. The Harbour was erected first from an
open shore by the Earles Marischall, and afterward by the
late Earle built to a considerable height, but was ruined on
that evil Monday, so pernicious to the Northern Coast of this
Nation, and now again is a repairing by the industry and
expence of the E. Marischall, with a voluntary Contribution
to be gathered throughout the Nation, it being a Harbour of
28 or 30 foot Water in the Entry, as I am informed, and a
Harbour as serviceable and ready as any 'twixt the two Firths
if the Peer were erected, which are arguments sufficient to
move all worthy Spirits.

iS6 MERNS

A Note of some remarkable things within the SHERIFF-
DOM of the MERNS, by Mr. John Keyth some-
time Minister at Dunotib and late Minister at
Garvock found amoung his Papers in his Closet after
his Death, which is faithfully here transcribed from
the Authentic Copy.

There be three Promontories therein viz: one upon the South

side of the Water of Dee called Girdleness. A ^ called

^5. Fowls heuchness, a mile be South Dunotir. a third called

Todhead or Craigevy on the Northside of the Water of

Bervy.

There is also a Bay under the Kirk of Egglesgreg called
S. Siras Hope, a commodious Roads for ships in a stress of
Wind out of the Northwest, where they ly calm under the
shelter of a high Hill.

There be many little shores for fisher-boats, as Torry at the
mouth of Dee, the Cove, Port Leviathan so called by reason
of some Whales, that come ashore there ; Findon, inde Findon
Haddocks, shore of Elsick, of Muchels, Skateraw, Cowy,
Craton, Heuchhead, Gappall, Bervy, Gourdon, Johnshaven,
Mill of Mathers.

Notandum, that at Stonehive, the Sea-Coast strikes in like
a firth, and is the surest Harbour betwixt the two Firths viz:
Murray firth and Forth, if it had a sure Harbour.

There be four Rivers or litle Waters here, viz: the Water
of Cowy, of Carron, of Bervy, of Luther. The first three
disgorge themselves in the German Sea, the fourth viz: Luther,
into North Esk, a litle beneath the Bridge. The Kirk nearest
thereto hath its denomination from the said Water, and is
called Aber Luthemet q.d. Aptid veljuxta ostia Abe?' Luther.

At the mouth of Cowy Water, there is a free Burgh called
Cowy vetusta magis guam opuknta^ by reason of the want of
a Shore or Sea-port for ships. There is to be seen beneath
the Town the Ruines of a Castle built, as is supposed, by
Malcolm Canmore the Town of Cowy made a free Burgh by
the said King. Besides these Ruines, there is an old Chappel,
called the Kirk of Cowy ; and a Chaplainry belonging thereto.

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given out by the King of old, and the Parson of Fettiress 266.
hath a portion of the said CImplainry given to him by the
Kings donation, to this day.

There be many Crofts of land yet beside this ruinous Castle
and the Town of Cowy that have their several denominations
from the several Office-men of the said Palace as Cooks-Croft,
Porter-Croft, Stable Croft, Stewart Croft, and have their
several Charters to this effect.

It is to be remarked, that after the Reformation of Religion
in this Kingdom, in Queen Marie's time, this Chappel being
demolished by reason of superstitious resorting thereto, a
certain man called William Rait of Redcloak brought away
some of the Roof of this Chappel, and built a House therwith,
and a little thereafter the whole House rained drops of bloud.
There be some living yet, that can testify this.

Nota. There was an Invasion of the Danes in this Shife
where they landed betwixt Cowy and Stonehive. Their
Trenches are yet to be seen on the lands of Arduthy and
Redcloak. The Scots incamped against them in a little Hill
above the Place of Urie, casting a deep Ditch round about the
Hill as is to be seen to this day, and is called by the Commons
Readykes alias Redoubts, which is a Term of Fortification.

There is a Loch not far from this, near the Water of Cowy
within the lands of Redcloak called the Loch of Redcloak and
Lilly-loch. It is not spacious, but very remarkable for a rare
sort of White Lilly growing therein, not of that sort found
within the Kingdom but in another only. They grow up in
the middest of ttie Loch from Roots bound together as great
as Firstocks which are found in Mosses, with six leaves, and
in quantity as great as a White Rose, very much commended S67.
by the Physicians. It is found by experience, that the Water
of this Loch will cleanse Linnencloth, as well without any
ingredient, as other Water will do with sope.

Among the Grampian Hills, that fall into the Merns, these
are remarkable ; the Eastmost Carnmothem a passage to Dee-
side, upon the West side thereof, called Slug of Gellen. The
next Carlaouk. The third Clochnaben, which signifies, as some
say, a White Stone, because upon the head thereof, there is a
stone as big as a little Mountain. Others call it Clochnaben

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quasi The Stone of Convention, because in former times, the
Gentlemen of the Shire conveened then in Summer time for
Hunting, Fowling, and other Sports. The uppermost is called
Mount Battock a march betwixt Straquhan and Glenesk.

Cowy mouth is ten miles in breadth, dangerous in former
times to pass, by reason of Robbers, but for the most part
manured and made fertile by Brunt land both in Oats and
Beer. The way is stony and mossy. There be two Causeys
in this Mouth, tiie one about three quarters of a mile, the
other a quarter. Without these two the passage to Aberdeen
were impossible in the Winter-Season. The first founders of
these Causeys are uncertain. There is an old Husband town
near by them called Cookstoun given out in old, for the main-
tenance of these Causeys, but of old being altogether come to
decay, there was a general Contribution by the Gentlemen of
the Mems for repairing of them. ITie town of Aberdeen col-
lected the same, undertook the same, have laid them dt novo^
and finished the work in the year 1684, a fair Porch being
built at the entry thereof.

Nota. Besides the dropping Cove of Slaynes mentioned by
i68. our ancient Chronologers, where Water turns into stone, there
is another beside Dunotir, which seems to be a bituminous or
sulphureous matter, and no other nor salt peter.

Nota that Mr. George Wishart and Walter Myln Martyrs
were bom in this Shire, the one in Pittaro, and son to the
Laird thereof the other, viz: Walter Myln, was bom at the
Myln of Garvock.

Nota. The howe of the Mems begins at the Moss of Craigie
and little Fiddes and extends to the Moss of Amehall, which
is about 14 miles.

Nota. The space betwixt Dunotir and Feterass is two miles.

There is to be marked within the Palax^e of Dunotir, besides
many others, two rare things. First the black stock a monu-
ment of Hospitality and open House holding there. It was
still covered with all sorts of Vivers of meat and drink, and
all men that came to the place, accepted to it. The other is
most worthy of observation and that is a stone that was found
in a Dike in the Borders of England and Scotland brought to
Dunotir by Earle George Marishall sometime Ambassadour

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to Denmark for Queen Anne, It is well enough known to
all these who have read our stories of ancient times, that
the Romans invading this Isle of Britain came and subdued
England and marching toward the Border of Scotland, built
a Ditch and Dike called Valium Hadrianiy now Grame's Dike.
The Romans then hewed a stone foursquare, the Eagle their
Insignia drawn on the sides thereof, with some Letters in the
Middest. This stone was by industry found and by the said
Earle brought by him to Dunotir, and fixed into his Gallery
which is to be seen at this day. The Frame of the stone is
thus : —

IMP. CESARI.
T. mAO. HADRIA
NO. ANTONINO. AVG.
PIO. P.P. VEXILLATION
LEG. XX. VAL VIC.
F. PER. MIL. P. III.

969.

This William Earle Marischall, who now lives this year
1642, is the 19^^ Marischall lineally from his Ancestours.

He carrieth in his Colours the Badge of the Castle of
Dunotir having this Inscription. Immobile,

In the Mems there is but one Presbytery, which meeteth
at Fordun ordinarily. There belong to it fourteen Parish
Churches viz: Banchory or Feteress, Dunotir, Kineff, Caterline,
Bervy, Benholme, St. Cyrus, Aberluthnot, Garvock, Fetercame,
Convith, Fordon, Arbuthnot, Marycouter.

The Shire is a part of the Diocese of St. Andrews and
comes to that Synod.

One Burgh Royall to wit, Bervy. The Sheriff Court meets
at Stonehive, which is the only fittest Harbour.

The length betwixt the North Water and the Water of
Dee, will be some 28 miles : the breadth of the Champaigne
Countrey some 10 miles ; their Highland Countrey may be as
much. The Strath large 14 miles long.

240 STRATHSPEY

aro. There be many ancient Families, Cheifs of their Names, as
fiannerman of Elsick, Burnet of Leighes, Keith Marishall,
Douglass of Glenbervy, Straiton of Lauriston, Arbutbnot,
Wood of Bebegno, Allardioe of that Ilk, Halkarton Falconer
of which name there are besides Glen Farcber, Newtoun Lord
President of the Session, to whom belongs Inglishmadie,
Bamakeilla, Sir John Falconer^s Residence at Gralrae, Falconer
of Ferdro, Rait of Hallgreen, Grahame of Morphey, Pataraw
now Camegy, formerly Wischart Middleton, Earle of Kin-
carden, Meinzies of Pitfoddels, Ramsay of Balmein. There
was formerly Barclay of M aiters, now Barclay of Ury, Scot of
Benholme, Strachan of Thomtine.

Description of STRATHSPEY.

Through this Countrey runneth the famous River Spey,
omnium fluvwrtim Scotice &®, It taketh its beginning at a
great Craig called Craig Flachie, which divideth this Countrey
from Badenoch. This word Craig Ilachie is the Laird of
Grant^s Slugan. When ever the word is cryed through this
Countrey, all the Inhabitants are obliged under a great Fine
or Mulct, to rise in Arms and repair themselves to a meeting
place in the middest of the Countrey lying on the Rivers side
called Bellentone and there to receive the Lairds Commands.
Upon the Southside of the River opposite to Craig Ilachie^
lyeth the Parish of Rothemurcus, which contains Six Dauchs
of Land, each Dauch being four Ploughs. This Parish is in
a Creek and a pendicle of the personage of Duthell. It holds
f7i. of the Regalitie of Spynie, it belongs to Patrick Grant a
Cadet of Grant's family; but formerly it belonged to the
Schaws, who yet possess the Parish, Alexander Schaw of Dell
being the Head of the Tribe. The Schaws are able fighting
men, and acknowledge Mackintosh to be their Chieftain, and
go under his Banner. The Schaws killed the Cumins that
dwelt here, who built a Castle in the middest of a great Loch
called Loch-Iland. This Castle is usefuU to the Countrey in
time of troubles or wars : for the people put in their goods
and children here, and it is easily defended, being environed
with steep Hills, and Craigs on each side, except towards the

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East. There is in the body of this Parish, a great Firr Wood
of two miles length, but very broad in respect it runneth up
into many Bumes. Here is a Saw-Mill, a great Forrest with
Deer and Roe, which marcheth with the forrest of Marr to
the South.

Upon the Northside of the River, opposite to Rothemurcus
beginning at Craig Ilachie lyeth the Parish of Duthell or
Lordship of Glenchernick, which formerly belonged to the
Cumings, but now to the Laird of Grant, the Laird of Grant
having married Beglit Cumine Heir to Lord Alex' Cumin^
by whom he got this Estate. This Parish and Parsonage i»
within the Diocese of Murray and Sheriifdom thereof. It
runneth five miles under the Hills from Craig Ilachie, till ye
come to the Water of Dullan. This Water is in both sides
habitable, of ten miles of length, being a pleasant Water,
good Com land, excellent Meadows, good pasturage in both
sides. There comes no salmon in this Water, but extraordinary
much Kipper, that is salmon in the forbidden time, which are
in such abundance, that a Gentleman thinks nothing to kill
160 in a night. They use to feast the Sheriif, and so escape
the fine, but the Commonalty pay some little thing. About
the midle of the Water, and at the head thereof there are f7t.
great Firr Woods in both sides, replenished with Deer and
Roe, much timber from thence transported to Inverness.
There is here two miles Mounth, which divideth this Countrey
from Strath Earn to the Northwest, called Kaime Lair Bane.

About the middle of the River, standeth the Kirk of
Duthell a large Church, but a poor Provision, as all the
Churches of this Countrey of Strath-Spey have, not exceed-
ing 500 Merks Scots for each Minister, who serveth at two
Churches, and some of them having seven miles betwixt their
Kirks, and in the whole world, there are not worse payed
Ministers and more neglected. The Bands of the Kirk doors
are very rare, made after the manner of a Tree casting out its
branches and covering the whole Door after the manner of
needle- work.

There are several Gentlemens Houses here, of the name of
Grant, given to Hospitality and Frugality. The Chief Family
here is that of the Clan Donichie, Mr. James Grant of Delvers

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242 STRATHSPEY

Advocate being the Head of their Tribe. The Women here
are vertuous, much given to the making of Cloth, by whidi
they yearly enrich their Husbands with money.

At the foot of the Water of DuUan, standeth the Castle of
Muckrach belonging to the Laird of Grant. From Duthell
eastwards there is a great Forrest belonging to his Majesty
called the Leanach which formerly was well replenished with
Deer and Roe but much neglected by reason that they pasture
much Cattell there which brings in money to the Laird of
Calder, who is Forrester. In this Mounth is the famous Lodi
trs. called Lochin Dirb, two miles in length, where there is a
Castle that hath been very great, one of the Cumin^s Strengths.
Here the Cumin"'s Lady was besieged by King Robert Bruce,
the Sconses being yet extant, till Edward Langshanks came
raised the seige.

This Mounth on the South, hath Strathspey, on the North,
Strath Earn, on the East Bray Moray, being very long. In
the narrowest part, it is eight miles of breadth, and runneth
till it come to Lochaber 40 miles.

Opposite to the Parish of Duthell, that part of it whidi
lyeth on the River Spey, on the other side of the River, lyetli
the Parish of Kincharden anciently possessed by the Stewarts,
who had their Charter from King Robert Bruce ; but being
wrested from by Conadge it now belongeth to Huntly.

Above this Parish lyeth the Glen-More, where is a great
Firr Wood with much Birch. Here is a great Loch, out of
which runneth a Water, which runneth through Rothemurcus,
called Druie & runneth into the Spey. They use to bring
down their timber on this Water. Here is the famous Hill
called Kaime Gorum, which is four miles high. Here it is
said, there are Minerals: for Gold hath been found here.
This Hill aboundeth with excellent Crystall. Much Deer
and Roe here. The people of this Parish much n^Iect
labouring, being addicted to the Wood, which leaves then
poor. There is much talking of a Spirit called Ly-Erg that
frequents the Glen-More. He appears with a red hand is the
habit of a Souldier and challenges men to fight with him, as
lately in 69 he fought with three Brothers one after another,
who immediately dyed thereafter.

STRATHSPEY 243

Opposite to Eincharden, Ijeth the Parish of Inver-Ellon
belonging to the Laird of Grant. The Chief family here is iW^
that of the Clanphadrike, Tullachcorume being the Head of
that Tribe of the name of Grant. In old there frequented
this Family a Spirit called Meg Mulloch. It appeared like a
little Boy, and in dark nights would hold a candle before the
Goodman, and shew him the way home, and if the Goodwife
would not come to bed, it would cast her in beyond him and
if she refused to bring what he desired, it would cast it before
him. Excellent Corns here.

Opposite to Inver-Ellon lyeth the Parish of Abernethie.
Here is a great Firr Wood 24 miles in Compass, two Saw-
Mills belonging to Grant, with ane old Castle built by the
red Friers. The Chief Family here is that of the Clan-Allan,
Achemick being the Head of that family. Excellent Meadows
here on the River side, and good Corn-land; severall good
Grentlemens Houses given to Hospitality on the Water of
Nethie, which runneth through this Parish. This Water
aboundeth with Kipper. They are given to makin of Cloth,
and selling of Weathers and Oxen.

Beneath Abernethie lyeth the Parish of Cromdell. The
Lands here in ancient times belonged to the Naims, but now
to Grant. This Parish is exceeding good land, and lyeth on
both sides of the River. Much Salmon taken here. Here is
Bella Castle, the Lairds Chief Residence, a stately House with
Parks about the same, great grassings. Beneath Cromdell on
the South side lyeth the House and land of Delvey in a Creek
of the River, good land &°. And next thereto lyeth the land
of Advi. Next to it is the Water of Aven, whereon standeth
the Castle of Bellindallach. This Water of Aven hath Woods
on both sides, and four miles above this Castle, the Water
divideth into two, the one half coming through Glenlivet an
excellent Countrey for Corns and Pasturage and it lyeth
towards the Southeast ; where are the Castles of Blairphine t75,
and Drummine. Towards the Southwest lyeth the Countrey
of Strathdown, a good high Countrey for Corns, Pasturage,
Woods, Deer and Roe. The people here are more rude than
in any other place or Waterside that runneth into Spey.
Generally both in this Countrey and Glenlivet they have

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fallen to Popery. The Countreys abound with all necessaries
for the use of man, they are within Bamffshire.

On the Southside of the River, lyeth the Church of Inver-
Aven being the Chancellour Seat of Murray. This Parish is
within Bamflshire ft; Diocese of Murray.

Opposite to it is the Parish of Knockando belonging to the
Laird of Grant. It is five miles of length on the Northside of
the River, being good land, and a great Mounth, that divideth
it from Murrayland. There are several Gentlemens Houses
here, the people civiL Here endeth the Irish Language.

Information for Sir Robert Sibbald anent
the Shire of FORFAR by Oucterlony
of GuiNDE. See another Volume Page.^

Addita ant mutata per Dnum Sibbaldum manu tpnus scripta.

The Judicatories thereof are the Sheriff Court, whereof the
Earles of Southesk are Heritable Sheriffes.) The Sherifship
is at the Soveraigns Donation and the Earle of Northest is
present Sheriff.

Four Church Regalities viz : Aberbrothoc, Brechin, Couper
and Rescobie) Rescobie a branch of the Regality of St.
Andrews.

The whole lands thereof hold of him) the following words
some few some ward are delete.

Kerremoor, whereof the Marquess of Douglass is Lord of
Erection) the words of Erection are delete.

Great abundance of Cattel, Sheep and Horse) The Breed of
horses is now worn out.

The Countrey aboundeth in Quarries of free stone excellent
for hewing and cutting especiallyone at the Castle of Glames.)
added, and the other at Denfin belonging to the Earle of
Panmure, which polish'd resembleth Marble.
2J6. In the Landwart Parish thereof there are several Gentlemens
Houses as Meikle Loure belonging) to Master Patrick Camegy
sone.

ibidem. Balmashanner) now belonging to Falconars.

* Macfarlane^s Geographical Collections^ voL ii. p. 21.— Ed.

FORFAR 246

Halkerstoun formerly to Guthries, now to Gray, there are
several other small heretors.

Kinnetles the Bishop of Edr. Patron) To consider if the
Bishop of Edr. be Patron.

Inneraritie and Methie are now joyned in one Parish and
have but one Minister, viz : M' Grahame, in the Diocese of
St. Andrews.) from these words are delete all to Wester
Methie.

Ibid Dunchine) the Barony of Dunichen. ibid, below, is
delete only Representative of the foresaid Family of Ouchter-
lony of that Ilk.

Ibid. Aberiemno) The Chief Heritour and ChieflF of his
name are delete.

Melgund &® to and some Addition made to all by Henry
Maul late Laird thereof) Added whose father was Henry
Mauie fourth son of Robert Maule of Panmure, whose sone
James Maule was a great Improver of the Douking bell.

ibid. Balgayes) formerly belonging to the Lindsay, now to
Strachan.

ibid, belonging to the family of Ouchterlony of that Ilk
usque Chief of his name, all delete.

Kerremoor Parish, ibid. Glenprossine belonging to the Laird
of Bandoch) now Kinloch of that Ilk.

Dundee Parish, ibid Constabulary of Dundee) This Con-
stabulary belongs now to the D. of Douglass Donator to the
late Viscount of Dundee'^s forfeiture.

ibid. The Bonnethill) lately purchast by the Town of
Dundee.

ibid. Pitkerro belonging to Durham) now to the heirs
of George M^Kenzie one of the Clerks of Exchequer.

Moniefieth) The Lairds of Moniefieth, Bamhill and others
belong to the Earle of Panmure.

Grange Durham) now Grange Martyne.

Ardounie) Arduny belongs now to Duncan of Arduny. ^

Omachie Durhame) Omachie Wedderburn.

Monikie) Most part of all the Parish with the Castle of
Monikie belong properlie to the E. of Panmure, and is called
the Barony of Dunie. Addition, now Incorporat with the
Barony of Panmure.

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Murrayes) Balumbie belonging to the £. of Panmure
second Brother his Designation is erased.

Westhall with a Dovecoat is delete. Addition is M' John
Guthrie of Westhall.

Maynes) after Residence and Title, is added, now belonging
to the Marquish of Douglass.

Telling) Maxwell is delete. Addition, lately purchast by
Scrimzeor Eirktoun late pro vest of Dundee.

Ouchterhouse) belongs to the £. of Strathmore^s brother M'
Patrick. Addition. Lundie Duncan now Heretor in thisParish.

LifT Parish. The Lands in the Parish) and most of them of
old belonged to the Abbacie of Scoon by the donation of King
Alex' I. in the Chartour of foundation of the Abbey.

Strathmartine. The Laird of Strathmartine) were Chief of the
name of Wyntoun, Addition, now belonging to Alex' Duncan.

Lundie) Added. Lately purchest by Duncan of Lundie.

Bervie) alteration and now to the Lord Gray, that to the
E. of Lauderdale is delete, another alteration. Is a part of
the ancient Barony of Panmure. After Lauderdale patron is
added and now to Lord Gray the heritor and tutor.

Eassy and Nevoy) The Heirs of the late Lord Couper.
Added. The Lairds of Drumkilbo. Nairn is now Proprietor.

ibidem. Kirktown of Eassie ft^ now to M' Alex' Foules.

ibid. All thir Parishes &^ Laird of Nevay patron.
978, Couper) The Town of Couper is in Perthshire and pertains
to the Lord Balmerino as Lord Couper.

Ruthven a litle Parish belonging altogether to a Gentle-
man of the name of Crichton) Clunie Crichton a Cadet of the
house of Frendrich. Clunie was Crichton.

ibid. Nether Airlie. The Barony of Baickie) Baikie and
some other lands there belong to one M' John Arrat.

Kingoldrum. Persie Ogilvy, Persie Lindsay) The Pearsies
belong now to John Edward, lately sold to M' John Galloway.

Fearne. The Parish belongs) mostly &^

ibid. Carraldstone) belongs now to John Stuart of GrairntuUie.

ibid. Sir Alex' Carnegy ft^) doted a stipend from the Margin
and obtained a stipend out of the Bishoprick of Brechin from
the King.

ibid. Patron) Laird Gairtillie.

FORFAR 247

Menmuir) a part of the Parish belongs to the Laird of
Balnamoon. Addition is, a part of it to Gaimtillie.

ibid. Navar belongs to the £. of Panmure) and GamtuUie.

ibid. Balnamoon hath a house in it called Tilliebirnie. is
delete.

Brechin) To Add a Description of the Castle of Brechin as
now repaird with an account of the £arl of Panmures Offices
of Constabulary and Justiciary of the Burgh of Brichen and of
his being Justiciar of the Waters of North and South Esk.

Peart — ^belongeth equally to Sir John Falconer of Galraw
and James Scot of Logic) who Proprietor to be inquired.

Logic. Logic Scots a good estate thereabout) now purchest
by Alex' Dempster Merch* in Montrose.

Inchbraik)- Baldovie a Gentleman'^s House of the name of
Dundass. Alteration, of Rainie.

ibid. Dunynald belonging to Thomas Allardice &°) altered 279.
To Scot brother to Craig.

Marytoun. Bonnietoun belonging to Sir John Wood) now
to James Miln Provest of Muntross.

ibid. Kinnaird and Famell. Both these Parishes belong)
almost intirely to the £. of Southesk.

ibid. Some of them Lords of Session.

Kinnell. Easter Braickie belonging to Alex' Pyper.

Innerkillor. Ethie grandfather) altered great grand father.

ibid. Breyingtoun belonging to Hay.

Lounane. Innerlounane belonging to Ogilvy) 4 brother
Inner Carity.

ibid. St Vigeans. Moorhouse belonging to) M' Patrick
Ouchterlony, son (to the Laird of Guind.

ibid. Wester Seatoun-Craufurd.

Abirlot. This paragraph delete.

There is a Note of Kellie a part to be taken in here, in place
of what is scored.

Carmyllie, Guynd &® belongs to John Ouchterlony, descended

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of the Ouchterlony of Cairnie, who were Cadets. Lineal suc-
cessor &® delete.

ibid. Cononsyth belonging to a Gentleman of the name of
Dickieson.

fso. A General Geographical. Description of
ZETLAND.

This Island hath several denominations. BytheNorvegians
it is called Yeltland, because in old time the Inhabitants here,
made a kind of course Cloth, named Yelt, which was carried
to Norway and sold there. By the Scots and .English, it is
called Shetland, because in old time, there were many Sheath-
fish caught about its Coast. And by the Hollanders it is
called Hetland, because as in old time, so now it is covered
with Heather.

However it be now named, yet it is certain, it must be that
old Thule so frequently mentioned by the Poets; as Tibi
serviat UUima Thule by Virgil; Tiec sit terris Ultima Thule
by Seneca; For 1. Heylyn in his Geography on Ysland
declares, that Solinus sayes, MuUae sunt circa Britanniam
Insuhe^ equibiis Thule Ultima : consequently this Island must
be one of the British Isles. And again that Tacitus sayes
InsulaSy quas Orcadas vocant, invenit domuitque; dispecta est
et Thule : and therefore this true Thule cannot be far from
Orkney. 2. Ross in his Virgilius Evangelizans not only agrees
with Heylyn, but adds more to the Confirmation hereof, whose
words are Revera Shetlandia Scotorum regno subjecta est
ipsissima TTiule, qtuim ideo nautce Thiletisel vocant. Elevatio
Poll cum Ptolomaica exacte consentit^ et opponitur Bergen
Norvegiarum^ &, moreover adds Haec x^era esse earperientia
comperi: transegi namx^ tres menses cestivos in hoc Thuk.
And truly the middle part of this Countrey answereth in
latitude to Bergen in Norway : for the south end of it lyeth
under the 60 and the north end of it under the 61 degree of
North Latitude and lyeth under the 24 degree of Longitude.
About the iEstival Solstice here is no darkness ; yea a moneth

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before and after it, if the Horizon be any thing clear, all the
night time one can read a Letter.

The length of it, running nearest South and North, is 60
miles, which beginneth at Soundbrough-head Southward, &
endeth at the Skae of Unst Northward. The breadth of it,
running nearest East and West is sixteen or eighteen miles, t8l.
where it is broadest, which beginneth at Bressay Eastward,
a,nd endeth at Walls, Westward, but where it is narowest, it
is but one mile broad, which is at Quarffdale.

To the South south west of it, especially from Soundbrough-
head some 26 or 28 miles lyes the Fair Isle famous for the
shipwrack of the Duke of Medina, Admiral of the Spanish
Armado 1588. Here is no Harbour for Ships save a little
Bay, that lyeth on the North north East end of the Isle, only
for the Summer time.

To the West of Zetland especially from Scalloway, some 20
miles, but from Walls some 8 or ten miles, lyeth the Isle
Fowlaye wherein is a Promontory called Lorafield, which hath
a perpendicular Hole never yet sounded, though sometimes
attempted and tried. The Fair Isle and Fowlaye are high
lands. This last lyeth to the former North West and by
North some 8 Dutch miles. In Fowlaye there is no Road or
Harbour for ships.

This Island or Countrey of Zetland for the most part is
highly Rocky on the Shore, and very mountainous up in the
land the superficies whereof is covered with Heather, and
under the same is abundance of TurfT or Feet ground special
good for fire-fewel.

Its Inhabitants are distinguished into the Clergy and Laity.
The Clergy or Ministery, in customes, fashions and manners
jojmtly agree with those of the Ministery of the Mainland of
Scotland.

The Laity is distinguished into the Gentry and Communalty.
They of the Gentry in customes, fashions, and manners almost
agree with those of the Gentry of the Mainland of Scotland,
from whence at first they did come, save that they seldom
unanimously bestir themselves for the promoving and manage- ist.
ment of a publick good, and are much given to tipling and
drinking ; Bibdcissimi k,^ as Maginus characterizeth the Orcades.

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They of the Communalty, the Native Inhabitants, being
descended from the Norvegians generally having a Patrony-
mical simame, are nimble of body, docile, hospital, dissembling,
flattering, false, and lascivious. They speak among themselves^
a corrupt Nords Tongue called Norn, but not so much now as
formerly. Grenerally they are healthful!, being of a wholesome
constitution. The Physicians use not to get great employ-
ment among them. The Women generally are well favoured,,
and much given to vertue and frugality. The Vulgar com-
monly live till they be five, six, or seven score years of
age.

Here man and woman. Husband and Wife, Parent and
Child, Master and Servant yea young and old are much given
to snuifing and smoking Tobacco.

The greatest part of their food in the summer time is Fisk
and Milk, whereof as profitable use is made as any where else ;.
and in the Winter they feed strongly on Fleshes.

This Countrey being good for Pasturage ; it is well, but it
hath been better stored with Horses, Neat, Sheep, Hog and
Coneys. The Horses are of a little sise and excellent mettell i
for one of them will easily carry a man or woman 20 miles &
day ; and they will live [till] they be 20 or 80 years of age
though they be never stabled Summer or Winter. The Neat,,
both Oxen and Eine, are of a considerable sise lesser than
these of England, but greater than these of Orkney, Caithness,.
or the Northmost places of Scotland. The Sheep, most of
them being unhomed are generally black and speckled, rough-
wooled, which is not shorn as in other Countreys, but about
midsummer is pulled off. The Hoggs are of a middle size,,
which for the most part feed on the mountains and the Coneys*
ess, being of a light brown colour, feed on Grass-Links and
holmes.

Here are no Hares or Foxes; neither Asps, Snakes, Adders,
Toads, Puddocks or any venomous creature. If Rats be
brought hither by shipping, they will not live over a year or
two. In several places here. Mice will not live.

Here are abundance of Selchs and Otters ; a good skin of
one of the latter will cost a Rix DoUer or S^^ Scots.

Here are some Whaps, Plovers and Ducks of all kinds with.

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a great resort of sea-fowls, who inhabite and nestle in the
Rocks on the Shore.

Here are many ravenous Fowls as £agles» Ravens and Crows.
In old time here they so multiplied, that the Fonde or Sheriff
made an Act, That whosoever at the Head Court, brought in
an Eagle's head, from each having Sheep in that Pasture, he
should have a Merk ; whosoever brought in a Raven's head,
should have an half Merk ; and whosoever brought in a Crow's
head, should have fourty pennies Scots.

In several places here are good Falcons and each year
His Ma^^^ Falconer repairing thither receiveth their
Brood.

In this Countrey, the Corn-land is so little, that, where the
sea bounds not, it is diked round about. And no other grain
grows here but that of Oats and Beer, which would not sustain
the third of the Inhabitants one year ; which defect is supplied
by Scotland and Orkney, who in the summer time bringing the
Victual hither, receive therefore money &; other Countrey-
Commodities.

There are no Parks here, but in many places excellent
Meadow ground, where yearly about Lammas is mowed abun-
dance of good Hay.

There are no Woods or Forrests here. But it would seem
that there hath been such in old time, because that in several
places of this Countrey are found under ground great Roots
and long Trunks of Trees. There is not to be seen here a
Tree now of two or three fathoms long. Only in the Yard of
Scalloway there are some few Shrubs.

Here hath not been any memorable Battel fought; hut £84,
there have been several Broyls and private Skirmishes not
worth the noticing, far less recording.

It is supposed that there €ire some Copper and Brass Mines
here ; but where they ly, that is not as yet known.

As for any ancient Monuments, there are none here ;
but only in several places of the Countrey, there are long
stones erected, called by the Inhabitants, Standing Stones,
pitched as it is thought, upon the account of Slaughter or
murder committed in that individual place.

As for any Rarities, there are very few here ; save that it is

252 SHETLAND

very credibly reported, that there is a Hillock beside Schall-
dister in Whalsey, whereupon if a Mariners Compass, be set, it
will so much vary that the North point will turn to the South :
but remove it a foot hence, or a very little distance, and it
will keep its true pointing. The like is observed in Fettlar
on the Chappel-Wall of Old Staye. In this Countrey also are
muscles and Oysters, wherein are found good Pearls.

Here are many Lochs stored with Eels and common speckled
Trouts, also several Springs and Rivulets ; but it is not as yet
known if the Water of any of them be Medicinal

The Houses here are all built of rough & unhewn stone,
not the smallest Cottage excepted, the common and ordinary
thacking is of a kind of Divet, called by the Inhabitants Flais,
and Straw and Simmons above the same which is yearly
renewed by the respective Owners about Hallow Mass, Some
Houses are thacked with deals. There are but only four
Houses here thacked with Slate.

Here are two Castles to wit the Castle of Scalloway built by
Earle Patrick Stewart anno 1600 now become ruinous ; the
Castle of Moraness in Unst built by Laurence Bruce son to
Coppina Lindie whose Heirs possess the same to this day.
t85. Here is a Fort at Lerwick on the Westside of Bressa-Sound
built at the Kings's Maties expence Anno 1666, the Houses
wherein, were burnt by the Hollander Anno 1678.

Here are also many old Fabricks erected, as it is supposed,
by the ancient Picts, when driven out from Scotland. These
have been built in a Pyramidal fashion, with a winding Stair
within to the top ; in the bottom whereof were diverse Cells,
all vaulted above, from the top of which when there was any
imminent danger, they made a sign by fire one to another.
The like they did from Promontories or Wart Hills. But all
these Fabricks now are very ruinous and called they are by the
Inhabitants Brughes.

In old time the sea about this Coast was well stored with all
common sort of fishes, as Mackrels, Herrings, Lings, Cods,
Haddocks, Whitings, Sheaths but especially with Podlines,
i.e. young Sheaths, called by the Inhabitants Pelltacks, which
in fair weather would come so near to the shore, that men yea
and children, from the Rocks with Fishing-rods could catch

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them in abundance. But all kinds of Fishing is greatly
decayed here notwithstanding that greater pains is taken by
the Fishers now than ever before, who with small Norway
YooUs, two or three men in each of them, will adventure to the
far sea and oft times endure hard weather.

Here in the Summer time is caught an excellent kind of fish
on the Eastside of the Countrie, particularly on the Northeast
& South East of Bressay, called by the Inhabitants Briss-
macks by the Hollanders Lump, and by the Scots and English
Tusk.

About the whole Coast here, there is a strong Current of
Tide-gate.

Upon the East & Westsides of this Countrey a South
south east Moon maketh High Water, only at Soundbrough-
head a South or a South and by East Moon maketh High
Water.

This Countrey is well accommodated with excellent Bays 286
and Roads very commodious and secure for all kind of
shipping, the ground being clean, naturally inclining to a
sandy Clay, and the Water considerably deep. Here are
no dry Harbours as in Scotland, and other places ; but
in several places, ships can be y^afely brought aground and
bett.

The Shore here sometimes casts up Whales, Ships and
driven Timber, upon which the Admiral-Deputes seise and
make all their Own : and they that are nearest neigbours
oft-times smart by the by.

The Product of this Countrey is mainly Fish, Oyl, Butter,
Wool, Feathers, Beef, Tallow, Hides, Stuff, Stockings, and
Woolen gloves and Garters. In old time, there was a con-
siderable Trade kept here but now is greatly decayed, which
is imputed both to the scarcity of the Commodities them-
selves, and to the Publicans exorbitant Exactions. At this
day only a few Hamburghers and Bremers use a small traffick-
ing in it. Heretofore in the years of Peace, the Hollanders
did great good here : for coming upon the Coast, fishing
herring, they used to arrive in Bressay-Sound to the number
of ten or fifteen hundred sail, and buy from the Inhabit-
ants, Stuffs, Stockings, Woolen Gloves and Garters- in

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abundance, for the Which they delivered either money or
any other Commodity they stood in need of.

The Civil Government here, since ever this Countrey was
annexed to the Crown of Scotland which was in the Year of God
1266, hath been under Fowdrie or Sherifiship till the Year of
Grod 1669, when it was with Orkney erected in a Stewardry
and so continueth.
^K$7. The Seat of Justice is in the Maties House the Castle of
Scallowaye, where yearly the Steward or his Depute keep two
Head Courts ; the one at Crossmass, and the other at Hallow-
mass ; besides Circuits and other particular Courts as necessary
occasions require.

Nota. In each Ministery, at leask in each Parish, the
Stewart doth substitute a particular Bailie for deciding
smaller affairs of Neighbour-hood betwixt man and man:
but all matters of importance are brought before the Steward,
or his Depute, and the said Baillie is still to be personally
present at the two Head-Courts.

The Church Grovernment here, since ever the Reformation
hath been Presbytery, subordinate to the Bishop of Orkney
and Zetland. ITie Ministers are in number eleven, who meet
but four times a year, to wit on the first Wednesday of each
Quarter.

Nota. Their travell is great ft; dangerous, their stipends
but small, five of them are payed by Laick Vicars in
money yearly, the other six who have their Vicarages in their
own hands, are payed by the people in Fish, Oyl, Butter,
Wool, Lambs, ft; such like Countrey Commodities.

This I had from M*^ Hugh Leigh Minister
of the Grospel in Brasie and Buro.

John Mark.

ANNANDALE

255

A BROKEN CROSS in Revel Church inm
Annandale, May 18, 1699.

The Length 4 foot and three Inches. Breadth at the top,
one foot and three Inches; at the bottom 1 foot and six
Inches.

The Pedestal, in Murray"^ Quire, hath the bottome of the
Inscriptions with some few more Images on the Latin side.

Two LATIN MONUMENTS in the Library
at the College of Glasgow.

IMP.CT.iELIO

hadrlvno. anto

NINO. AUG. pp.
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Term (as it
seemB) or

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DXI.

Victory with
Wings on his
shoulders.

Both given by M' W. Hamilton of Orbeston
in the Year 1695.

This Page is from a loose Paper apart
whereon are many Runnic Letters.

PREUVE de L'ESCOSSE FRAN<;:OISE «59.

Quant aux alliances de la France et de TEscosse regnant
Charlemaigne et Achaius, vous le trouveres amplement de-
clarees au second livre de Veremondus, et au dixiesme livre
de Hector Boetius Historiens Escossois et du depuis coUig^s

256 L'ESCOSSE FRANgOISE

par David Chambres Con^' en la Cour de Parlement d^Edim-
bourg en Escosse et present^s par le diet Chambres au Roy
de France Charles Neufiesme a Blois le 12 d'Avril Tan de
Grace 1572.

I^ Confirmation de PAlIiance entre Louys le debonnaire
Hoy de France et Alpin Roy d'^Escosse est escript par Ie&
susdicts Autheurs en THistoire du diet Alpin.

Charles le Gros Roy de France et Gregoire Roy de Escosse
confirmerent Talliance suivant les susdicts Autheurs et Selon
Cuspinian. Charles espousa Richarde fille du Roy d^Escosse,
ce j^avois obmis, d^insever en ma Recherche.

Les susdicts Autheurs rapportent la Confirmation de
TAUiance, et mutuelle assistance entre Philippes premier Roy
de France et Malcolm us Kanmor Roy d'^Escosse.

La Confirmation de TAlliance des deux Royaulmes est
Escripte par les susdicts Autheurs. Et quant a TEntreveue
de Louys 7 Roy de France et de Guilleaume Roy d^Escosse,
pour accorder les Enfans d'^Angleterre avec Henry second leur
Fere, vous le trouveres dans THistoire de France escripte par
Nicolas Gilles et Denis de Sauvage en THistoire du diet
Louys, la dicte guerre et la accord d'^icelle est mentionne dans
THistoire d'Angleterre en la Vie du diet. Henry, & comme
les susdicts Enfeins suvent assistes par les susdicts Roys de
France et d''Escosse.

La dicte Alliance confirmee par Philippes August Roy de
France et le diet Guilleaume Roy d'Escosse, avec le secours
envoye a la terre saincte, est escripte par Hector Boetius
Escoissois en son Histoire Livre S. et au cinquiesme Livre de
Poly dor us Virgilius.
290, UAUiance entre la France et FEscosse et augmentation
d'icelle d'^un Article par Louys huietiesme Roy de France et
Alexandre second Roy d'^Escosse, escripte par Hector Boetius
au 8 livre de son Histoire d'Escosse.

L^AUiance renouvell^e, et tout ce qui se passa entre St. Louys
Roy de France et Alexandre 3 Roy d^Escosse, vous le trouveres
dans les Histoires d'Escosse, et amplement dans le treiziesme
livre de Hector Boetius, et au cinquiesme livre de Suention.

La dicte Alliance et augmentation d'^icelle, et Mariage la
dessus trame par Philippes le Bel Roy de France, et Robert

L'ESCOSSE FRANgOISE 257

Roy d'^Escosse est rapporte par Hector Boetius en son 14 livre
de THistoire d'Escosse, Paul Emile, et les Annales de France
en THistoire du diet Pbilippes le Bel.

Tous les susdicts Autheurs rapportent la Confirmation de
r Alliance entre Charles le Bel Roy de France et le susdict
Robert Roy d'^Escosse.

Ce que j'*ay rapports de Philippes de Valois Roy de France
et de David Second Roy d^Escosse touchant le manage de la
Fille d'^Angleterre, et ce qui en suivit, vous le trouveres es
Annales de France escriptes par Nicolas Gilles et Dennis de
Sauvage au Chapitre Comme le Roy retourna de Flanders a
Pfciris et presenta son Cheval et Harnois en TEglise de nostre
Dame. Et quant a T Assistance personelle du diet Roy
d^Escosse, envers le Roy de France, vous le trouveres dans
Johan Fillius Historien Francois qui diet en ses mots parlant
du Roy d^Escosse, lequel apres la Guerre s'^estoit retire dans
son Royaume Scotus aetemus Francorum amicus reducitur
domum. Et de ce qui se passa entre le Roy de France et le
Roy d'^Espaigne pour TE lection des Papes Clement et Urbain,
et de Taffection inviolable du Roy d'Escosse envers le Roy de
Prance, Paul Emile diet en ses mots. Sed Scotus foederatus 29U
Franco constante inexpugnabilique volimtate nunquam variavit.
Polydorus Virgilius en son Histoire d'Angleterre parlant du
diet Roy d'*Escosse diet, que les Escossois sont comme
une Fleche preste d'estre tiree selon la volonte des Roys
de France. Hector Boetius en son Histoire d'Escosse
rapporte beaucoup de choses que je n'ay pas mis dans mon
Recherche.

La Ratification de TAlliance entre Charles cinquiesme Roy
de France et Robert Roy d^Escosse, et Secours envoye en
Escosse, est Escript par Belforest en son neufuresme livre de
THistoire des neuf Roys Charles et les Annales d^Escosse, qui
disent le mesme.

Ceste incomparable Alliance fut confirmee par Charles
sixiesme Roy de France et Robert Roy d'Escosse, le grand
secours envoye di verses sois en France, la Bataille de Bauge
gaign^e par les Escossois, & la liberality de Charles envers les
diets Escossois se trouvera es Annales de Fmnce escriptes par
Gilles, du Sauvage et du Haitian et mesme es Annales d'Escosse

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258 I/ESCOSSE FRANgOISE

au discriptione livre de Hector Boetius et au septieme livre de
Messire Johan de Lesly Evesque de Ross.

Le Manage de Louys Dauphin de France avec la Fille du
Roy d^Escosse trame«par Charles septiesme son frere se trouve
escript par Belforest en son treiziesme livre de THistoire des
neuf Roys Charles et dans les Annates de France escriptes
par Gilles, du Sauvage en la Vie de Charles Septiesme, et en
THistoire d^Escosse au dixseptiesme livre de Hector Boetius.
Et quant a la Courtoisie inestimable du diet Charles 7 Roy de
France envers les deux filles d'^Escosse qui viendrent en France,
vous le trouveres dans les Annales de France escriptes par
Gilles et du Sauvage en la Vie du diet Charles, et au Chapitre
de la mort de la susdicte Royne Dauphine.

Quant aux bons services de Gardes Escossois envers le diet
Louys 1 1 Roy de France, Uses Philippes de Commines et vous
trouveres beaucoup plus que je n''ay mis en ma Recherche ; et
Polydorus en son Histoire d'Angleterre qui diet Scotus certus
et perpetuus Francorum Socius.
^2, Quant a ce qui se passa entre Charles Huictiesme, Tassistance
q'^uil receu des Escossois durant les Guerres d'^Italie, lises Bel-
forest en son 14 livre de THistoire des neuf Roys Charles, et
Philippes Commines au Chapitre de la Bataille de Fomocio.

Si vous desires voir la preuve des choses dignes de memoire
conferes entre Louys douziesme Roy de France et Jacques
4"*® Roy d'^Escosse, lises THistoire de France escripte par
Gilles et Sauvage en la Vie du diet Louys et Jehan du Tilhet
Historien de France.

Et quant a ce qui j'ay escript de Fran9ois premier, Henry
Second, Francois Second, Charles neufuiesme Henry treisiesme
et les Roys d'Escosse qui regnerent pendant leur temps, il n'y
a point lieu de contredict. Car outre ce que tons les susdicts
Historiens en ont escript, les affaires sont fort recentes & pour
la plus part ont este veues par des personnes qui sont encore
en vie.

Les Escossois, qui se trouvent avoir este pourveus par les
Roy de France aux dignites Ecclesiastiques, que j'avois obmis
de nommer par ma Recherche, suivant les susdicts Autheurs
et Mr. Servin Advocat du Roy en ses Playdoyers sont Messire
Andre de Forman Archevesque de Bourges.

L^ESCOSSE FRANgOISE 269

Messire Alexandre de Cobron aussi Archevesque de Bourges

et Doyen de Clery.
Messire David de Bethune Cardinal d'Arbroth, Archevesque
de St Andre & Primat d^Escosse eut d'un Roy de France
TEveschc de Mirepoix.
Messire David de Panthere Evesque de Ross fut Abbe de

Lassay en Poitou.
Messire Jacques de Bethune Archevesque de Glasco & Am-
bassadeur pour le seu Roy d'Escosse en France eut la
susdicte Abbaye de Lassay & le Priore de St. Pierre a
Ponthoize, ce qu'il posseda jusques a la fin de ses jours.
Messire Jehan de Liviston fut Abb^ de Clercu; en Agenois, t9S,
Messire Jehan de Lesley Evesque de Ross fut Doyen en
TArchevesche de Rouen ; sans infinite d'autres et a
present es autres charges.
David de Blaquevod Conseiller au siege Presidial a

Poitiers.
Jacques de Cadan, Docteur Regent du Roy en TUni-

versite de Toulouse.
Robert de Balfour Principal du College de Guyenne

a Bourdeaux.
Thomas de Barclay Docteur Regent et Principal du

College de TEsquille a Tolose.
David Abemetheus PrincipcJ du College a Monpelier

& Lecteur du Roy es Mathematiques.
de Chryton Professeur du Roy en Grec a Paris,
de St Clar Professeur du Roy en Mathematiques a Paris.
Jehan de Lesley Chanoine en TArchevesque de Rouen.
Jehan de Eraser Prieur de en Brie.

U y a 3 ou 4 Chanoines Escossois a Cinquantin, sans un
nombre infini d'^autres Escossois, qui ont des conditions &
charges honorables en France.

260 MONROES CLANS OF THE ISLES

m. GENEALOGIES of the CHIEFF CLANS
of the ILES collected By me Sir Donald
Monro Heighe Deane of the Isles.

Imprimis. Clandonald and of them 5 branches in the lies,
by branches smaller.

First Donald Gormesone his kin are called of surname
luscheon that is to say the successione of Huscheone M'Donald,
quhom of they descend it and sprange. Therfor this man is
called Donald McDonald Gorme, Vic Donald Gurraache, Vic
Donald Gorvaiche, Vic Huscheon quho wes sone to Alexander
of Ila Erie of Rosse and Lord of the lies, as the heighland men
calls King of the lies.

And this Alexander wes sone to Donald Earle of Rosse by
the Marriage of Walter Lesley Earle of Rosse daughter and
heire. And this Earle Donald wes the Earle of memorey that
of the Clanronald justly brukit Rosse.

And this Donald wes the stocke quherfra Clanronald were
named last in ther names quha wes sone to Jhone of Ila, and
of the best that came of that sorte, quho had the Stewarte to
his wyfFe, mother to this Donald forsaid.

This Jhone of Ila wes sone to Angus M® Angus, Vic Donald
fra quhome they were called first and of auld Clandonald.

Tliis Donald wes the sone of Raynald M^'Somerle or Somer-
ledi fraquhome they were for a quhile named and called
Clan Somerle.
'£95. This Somerle wes the sone of Gillebryde M^^GilleAdam-
name, Vic Sella, Vic Mearhaighe, Vic Swyffine, Vic Malhussa,
Vic Eacime, Vic Gothofred fra quhome they were called at
that time Clan Gothofreid that is Clan Gotheray in Hybers
Leid, and were verey grate men in that tymes of Zeire, and
ay on called Clangothey, quhill Donald Gorme quhom I last
made mentione.

Gotheray wes the sone of Fergus, M^'Eriche, Vic Cartayne,
Vic Ethoy, Vic Thola Craisme, Vic Ethoy de WifF Leist or
Ethodius, Vic Frathriquerwy or Fratherus, Vic Claipre Liffe-
chuyr or Corbredus, Vic Chrorin weet Alada, or Cormacus, Vic
Airt Lermeche King of Ireland maist royall in all his Actions

MONROES CLANS OF THE ISLES 261

Vic ChwjnChedehahoy or Condus Centibellus king of Ireland
a royall Prince and Lyon like in all his actions of warre of
quhome I make the stoke in Ireland for that he is lineally
diseendit of Gathelus Seed.

CLAN EANMORE

The second house of the Clandonald.

Sir James Macconeill of Kyntyre is the second house of the
Isles quho is sone of Alexander M^'Jhone, Vic Anald or Agnaldi,
Vic Ean (or Johannis Vic Donald Ballay, Vic Ean of quhom
they are called to surname Sleight Ean Moira) successio
Johannis Magni, quho wes sone to Johne the best Lord of the
Isles as I have said offen befor quho had the Stewartes daughter
to his Ladey. Heir I imp® this branche to the tree j ustly as is
afforsaid.

CLAN RAGNALD

The third housse of the Clandonald.

Johne Moydeortreiche is the sone of Alexander Mac Allan
or filius Alani, Vic Rorey or Roderici, Vic Ean or Johanis, Vic 296,
Ragnald or Riginaldi quhome I imp® to this good Johne of Ua
his father forsaid. Heir sprouted twa branches of the tree at
once that is the Clan Ean-moire, and the Clan ragnald.

Clan-Ean of Ardnamorachin the fourte house of the Clan
donald.

Alexander McDonald or Donaldi, M^Ean or Johannis,
M^^Aloir or Alexandri, M^Angus, M^Ean Achechterwache,
M^ Angus Moire quho wes the Lord of the lies, and him I
imp® to the tree.

Alexander Carrath, the fyfte Housse of Clan Donald.

Neirest tliis diseendit from the House of Clandonald is
Alexander Carrath that is Shawit Alexander sua that be the
Countries Custome, because the Heighland men called the
fairest hared men Chewit Man, and the Chewit the hared and
iBua furthe, for this Alexander wes the fairest hared man as
tbey 6ay, of aney that ever was ; And this Alexander wes

262 MONRO'S WESTERN ISLES

brother to this Donald of the Isles forsaid and to Jhone Moire
fra quhome James of Kyntyre descend it, and brother of the
father syde to Ragnald of quhome the Clanranald.

And this Carrath hes maney come of him and good succes-
sion in Lochaber called Clan Ranald, McDonald Glasse, Vic
Alexander quhilk bruikes a pairt of Locheaber sinsyne.

Ther wes by thir I have wretten offen Johne Grotho&ed and
Angus, the quhilke had nae succession.

Finis.

9r.

A Description of the WESTERNE ILES OF
SCOTLAND called HYBRIDES. Compyled
by Mr. Donald Monro Deane of the lies. 1549.

A Description Insularum Orchadiarum. per Jo.
Ben Resident there. Anno 1529.

m. A Description of the WESTERNE ISLES
of SCOTLAND by Mr. Donald Monro,
quho travelled through maney of them in
Anno 1549.

MAN. 1.

First in the Irland seas foment the poynt of Galloway neirest
betwixt Scotland, England and Irland lyes the first lyle of the

MONRO'S WESTERN ISLES 26S

saids lies, callit in Latine Tongue Mona & Sodora in English
Man in Erische Manain. Whilk sometime, as auld Historio*
graphers sayes, was wont to be the Seat first ordynit by Fynan
King of Scottis to the Priest and the Philosophers called in
Latine Druides in English Culdeis and Kildeis that is Wor-
shippers of God, in Erishe Leid Draiche,quhilks were the first
Teachers of Religion in Albion. Quherinto is the Cathedrall of
the Bishop of Man and lies dedicate, in the honor of St. Peter
the Apostle* This He is 24 myles lange and 8 myle braid
with twa Castellis.

EISAY 2.

Northwart from this He of Man be 60 myles of sea Layes

Elsay, ane lyle of ane myle lange, quherin is ane grate high

hill round and roughe and ane heavin, and als aboundance of

Soland geisse and ane small poynt of ane nesse, quherat the

fishing bottis lyis, for the same He werey good killing, ling

and uther whyte fishes. Foment this He layes Carrick on the

t southest pairt, Ireland on the southwest pairt and the landis

i of Kintyrc on the West and Northwest pairt. The said Elsay

I being neirhand midsea betwix the saids Marches.

ARRAN. 3. «99.

Be North or Northeist fra this He be 24 myles of sea lyes
Arran ane grate He, full of grate Montans and forrests, good
for hunting with part of woods extending in lenthe from the
Kyle of Arran to Castle Dounan southwart to 24 myles and
from the Kyle of Drumdouin to the Ness of Kilbride 16
myles of breadthe inhabit onlie at the seacoasts. heirin are
thre Castils. ane callit Braizay pertening to the Earle of
Arran, ane uther auld house callit the Castle of the heid of
Lochrenasay pertyning likways to the said Earl, and the thrid
callit Castle Douan pertening to ane of the Steuart of Bute^s
blood callit M' James, he and his bluid are the best men in
that Countrey. In Arran is a Loche callit Lochrenasay with
three or four small waters. Twa paroch kirks the ane callit
Kilbride, the uther callit Kylmure. Foment this Isle layes

264 MONRO'S WESTERN ISLES

the Coste of Kyle in the Eist and southeist be ten or 12 myles
of sea in the North, Bute, be 8 myles of sea in the West, Skib-
nesse, pertening to the Erie of Argyle.

FLADA. 4. MOLASS. 5.

Upone the Shore of this lyle layes Flada, ane litle yle full of
Cunings, with ane uther litle He called the Yle of Molas quheriD
ther wes foundit by Johne Lord of the lies, ane monastery of
Friars which is decayit.

BUITT. 6.

The lyle of Buitt lyes as we have said before, be 8 myles of
sea to the North eist of Arran, ane mayne lyle 8 myle lange from
the North to the Southe, and 4 myle braid fra the West to the
Eist, very fertyl ground, namelie for aitts, with twa strenthes
the one is the round Castle of Buitt callit Rosay of the auld
and Borroustone about it callit Buitt. Before the touh and
Castle is ane Bay of Sea quhilk is ane guid heavin for ships to
ly upon ankers. That uther Castle is called the Castle of
SOCK Kames, quhilk Kames in Erische is alsmeikell as to say in
English the Bay Castle. In this He ther is twa paroche kirks
that ane Southe called the Kirk of Bride, the uther northe in
the Borrowstone of Buitt with twa Chappells ; ane of them
above the towne of Buitt, the uther under the forsaid Castle
of Kames. On the North and Northwest of this He be halfe
myle of sea, lyes the Cost of Ergyle, on the Eastsyde of it, the
Coast of Cuninghame be 6 myle of sea.

INCHE MERNOCKE. 7.

On the West southwest of it layes ane litle lyle callit Inche
Memocke twa myle fra sea, low mayne ground, weill inhabit
and manurit, ane myle iange and halfe myle bread the.

CUMBRA. 8.

One the eist and southeast lyes ane yile callit Cumbray

MONROE WESTERN ISLES 865

inhabit and manurit, 3 rayle in lenth and ane myle in breadthe
with ane kirk callit Sanct Colmis kirke.

CUMBRAY DAIS. 9.

Besides this lyes ane lyle callit Cumbray of the Dais because
there is maney dayis intill it.

AVOYN. 10.
Befor the south poynt of the promontory of Kintyre lyes be
Ane myle of sea, ane lyle neire ane myle lange callit the lyle
of Avoyn quhilk lyle is obteinit that name fram the armies of
Denmark, quhilkis armies callit it in their leid Havin. It is
inhabit and manurit and guid for shipps to lay one ankers.

CARRITH-SKEATHE. 11.

Foment this lyle one the shore of Kyntyre layes ane lyle
with a Castle namet Carrick Skeath with ane litle water
quherin is ane guid havin for small bottis. ^^'

RACHLAIN. 12.

On the southwest fra the Promontory of Kyntyre upon
the Coast of Irland be four myle to land layes ane lyle callit
Rachlaine, pertaining to Irland and possessit thir money zeires
by Clandonald of Kyntyre 4 myle lange and twa myle braide,
guid land inhabit and manurit.

CAR AY. 13.

Upon the Northwest coist of Kyntyre be 4 myle of sea to
the same lyes ane litle lyle, with a Chapell in it callit Caray,
gmd for quhite fishes, aboundant of Cunings, inhabit and
manurit, mair nor ane myle lange and ane halfe myl braid.

GIGAY. 14.

At the heid of the lyle Caray, therfra Northei3t, layes ane
lyle callit Gigay sex myle lange, ane myle halfe myle breidth,
with ane paroche kirke, guid fertile maineland, it has therin
Aboundance of Eddirs. The auld Thane of Gigay should be

266 MOxNRO'S WESTEIIN ISLES

Laird of the same callit McNeill of Gigay, and now it i»
possessit by the Clandonald. Streitest at the shore of Kyntyre
from southwest to northeist in lenthe, 4 myle of sea fron^
Kyntyre.

DURAY. 16.

Nairest that Yile layes Duray ane uther fyne forrest for
Deire. Inhabit and manurit at the Coist syde, part be Clan-
donald of Kyntyre, pairt be MacGullayne of Douard pairt be
M®Gullayne of Kenlochbuy, pairt be M^'Duffithie of Colvansay,
ane lyle of 24 myle of lenth lyand from the Southwest to the
soi' Northeist be 12 myle of sea from Gigay above writtin and ane
myle from Ila quher is twa Loches meitand uthers throughe
Mide lyle of Salt Watter to the lenthe of ane haff myle ; and
all the Deire of the West pairt of that forrest will be callit be
tainchess [tainchels] to that narrow entres and the next day
callit West againe be tainchess through the said narrow entres,
and infinit Deire slaine ther, pairt of small Woods. This lyle,
as the ancient lyllanders alledges should be callit Deiray taking
the name from the Deire in Nome Leid quhilk has given it that
name in auld times. In this lyle there is twa guid and save
raids for shipps, the ane callit Lubnaleirey and the uther Loche
Terbart foment uthers. The gratest hills in this lyle are chieflie
Bencheilis, Bensenta, Corben, Benannoyre, in Ardlagsay ane
Chappell sometime the Paroch kirk Kitemadill. The Watter
of Laxay ther, the Water of Udergan, the wattir of Glongar-^
gister, the waters of Knockbraick, Lindill, Caray, Ananbilley^
All thir Waters salmond slaine upon them. This lyle is full
nobell Coillis [? Coeltz] with certane fresche Water Loches with
meikell of profit.

SKARBAY. 16.

Neires this lyle be twa myle lyes ane He called Skarbay
betwix tliir twa lyles ther runnes ane streame, above the
power of all sailing and rowing with infinit dangers callit
Corybrekan. This Streame is 8 myle lange, quhilk may not be
hantit bot be certane tyds. This Skarbay is four myles lange
from the west to the eist, and ane myle breadth, ane higb
roughe yle inhabit and manurit with some Woodes in it.

MONROES WESTERN ISLES 267

VELICHE. 17.

Nairest the lyle or Skarbay layis ane lyle callit in Erishe 90S.
Elian Veliche unto the northeist.

GELBRASTOLL. 18.
Narrist this layes the lyle GelbrastoU a verey little Isle.

LUNGAY. 19.

Narrest to the lyle of GrelbrastoU layes the lyle callit
Lungay.

FIDLACHAILLE. 20.
Narrest the lyle Lungay, ther ane lyle callit Fidlachaille.

FIDLAVIROW. 21.

Narrest to the lyle of Fidlachaille ther layes ane lyle callit
in Erisch Fidlavirow.

GAROWHELLACH SKEAIN. 22.

Narrist the lyle of Fidlavirow, ther layes ane lyle in Erishe
namit Garowhellach-Skean.

GARROWHELLACH NANRONOW. 23.

Narrest to this forsaid lyle layes ane rockie knobe namit in
Erische Garrowhellach Nanronow.

NANAOSE. 24.

Narest to this lyle of Garowhellach Nanronow layes ther a
verey litle lyle callit in Erische Elache Nanaose.

CULIBRENYN. 25.

Narrest to the lylland Nanaofe, layes ther the small lylland
callit in the Erische Leid Culibrenyn. $04,

268 MONRO'S WESTERN ISLES

DUCHONILL. 26.

Dunchonill ane lyle so naniit from Conall Eemache ane
strenth wich is alsmeikl as to say in Englishe, ane round Castle.

MADIE. 27.

Elian Madie in Erische layes betwix Liungaj and being
callit in English the Wolfis lyle.

BELNACHNA. 28.

Narrest the Volfis lyle layes ane lylland callit in Erisch
Leid Elian Belnachna, quharin ther is fair Skailzie aneuche.

VICKERAN. 29.

Narrest to the lyle of Belnachna layes the small lyle of
Vickeran.

NAGAWNA. 30.

Hard on the lyle Vyckeran layes there a small lylland
namitt in Erisch Elian Nagaruwa.

LUNGE. 31.

Lunge 3 mj'le of lenthe, twa pairt niyle of breadthe with a
parocli kirk, guid main land inhabit and manurit, guid for
store and Come. Its possest be M^Gillayne of Doward in few
fra the Erie of Ergile. It rs a havin sufficient for heighland
galeyis in it. Lyand from the Southwest to Northeist in
lenthe.

SEILL. 32.

S06, Nan-est this lyle layes Seill, three myle of lenthe ane half
myle breidth, Layand from the Southwest to the Northeist,
inhabit and manurit guid for store and come pertaining to

• . the Erie of Ergyle.

MONRO'S WESTERN ISLES 269

SEUNAY. 83.

Narrest this lyle of Seill layes the lyle Seunay twa myle
in lenth and half myle in bread the from Southwest to North-
eist. Inhabit and manurit, guid for gersing store and per-
tening to the Erie of Ergyle.

SKLAIIT. 34.

Narrest Sewnay Layes ther a litle lyle called in Erische
Leid Elian Sklaitt, wherin ther is abundance of Skalzie to be
win.

NAWISSOGE. 35.

Narrest this lyle layes the smal He of Navissogue in Erische
callit Elian Nawissogue.

EISDCALFE. 36.

Narrest this layes ther the He Eisdcalfe namit in the Erische
Leid Elian Eisdcalfe.

INCHE KENYTH. 37.

Narest this lyl layes ane lylland namit Inche Kenithe.

INCHIAN. 38.

Narrest this lyle layes ane lylland namit in Erish Leid
Elian Inchian.

UDERGA. 39.

Narrest this forsaid lyl of Incheian lyes ther ane uther verey
small rock callit in Erisch Leide Elian Uderga. S06.

KINGS lYLE. 40.

Narrest to the lyl Uderga layes an lyle callit in Erish Leid
Elian Righ that is in English the Kings Isle.

BLACK lYLE. 41.

Narrest to the Kings lyle layes ane He or rather a grate
craig called in Erish Leid Elian Duff, in English the Black Isle.

270 MONRO'S WESTERN ISLES

KIRKE lYLE, 42.

Narrest the Bl£u;ke lyle layes there ane lyle callit in Erisch
Leid Nahagleis and in English the Kirke lyle.

CHREARACHE. 43.

Narrest to this kirk He layes the lyl Chrearache.

ARDE. 44.

Neirest to Chrearache layes ther ane lyle callit in the Erisch
Leid Elian Arde in English the Highe lyle.

LAICHE ILE. 45.

Narest to Arde layes ther ane lyle callit in the Erish Leid
Elian Eisill in English the Laiche lyle.

m. GREINE lYLE. 46.

Nerest this Laiche Isle layes ane lyle namit in Erish L^eid
Glasellan that is in English the Green Yland.

HEDDIR lYLE. 47.

Narrest the Green Yle layis the Yile which in the Erishe
Leid is namit Frewch-Ellan ^ or the Heddir Eyiand.

HASIL lYLE. 48.

Narrest the hedder lyle layes ther another which in the
Erish Lid is callit Ellan-na-Crawiche.

GATIS ILES. 49.

Narist the Hasil lyle layes ane rockie scabrous lyle callit in
the Erische Leid Elian Nagonre which in English is the
Gaytis Isle.

CONINGS lYLE. 50.
Narrest to the Gaytis lyle layes there a verey pretty litle
sandey lyle callit in the Erish Leid Elian Nagenein which is
in English the Conings lyle.

^ * Freuch Elian ' interlined. — Ed.

MONROES WESTERN ISLES 271

IDYLE lYLE. 61.

Narrest the Conings lyle layes the lyle called be the Erish
Elian Dravin that is the Idyle lyle.

EISEL, 62. SOS.

Narrest the Idle lyle layes ther a laiche small lyle namit by
the Erisch Elian Eisell or the Laich lyle.

URIDITH. 63.

Narrest to the aforsaid lyland layes the He of the Erisch
themselves callit Uridithe.

LISMOIR. 64.

Lismoir ane lyle quher leid ure is, foment Douard. This
lyle is four myle lange with ane paroch kirke in it.

ILA. 55.

Narrest this forsaid lyle on the West syde of it Layes Ha,
ane He of twentie mile lenthe from the North to the South and
sixteen mile breadthe from the east to the West, fertill, fruit-
full and full of naturall grassing, with maney grate Deire
maney woods faire gaimes of hunting beside everey toune with
ane watter called Laxay whereupon maney salmont are slaine,
with ane Salt Watter Loch callit Lochegunord quherin runs
the Watter of Gyinord with high sandey banks upon the quhilk
bankes upon the sea lyes Infinit Selcheis Whilks are slayne
with doges leamit to the same effect. In Ha is meikle Lead
Ure in Moychells. In this lyle there is an guid raid for
schipps callit in Erische Polmoir and in English the Meikill
puill, this layes at ane toune callit Lantay Vanych. Ane uther S09,
raid lyes within Elian Grynard callit in English the Isle at
the poynt of the Nesse, the Raid is callit Leodannis. Within
this lyle there is sundre firesch water Lochis sic as Lochmoy-
burge wherein there layes ane lyle perteining to the Bishopes
of the lyles. The Loch of Elian Charrin quherin there is ane
lyle pertyning to M^^Gillane of Doward. Loch Cherossa with
ane lyle perteining to the Abbot of Colmkill. In this lyle

272 MONROE WESTERN ISLES

there is strenths Castells, the first is callit Dunovaik biggit
on ane Craig at the sea side, on the Southeist pairt of the
Countrey pertaining to the Clandonald of Kintyre; Second
is callit the Castle of Lochgiirne quhilk is biggit in ane lyle
within the said fresche Water Loche far fra land pertaining of
auld to the Clandonald of Kintjrre, now usurped be M**Gillayne
of Do ward. Elian Forlagan in the midle of Ila ane faire lyle
in fresche watter.

EARNE lYLE. 56.

At the mouth of Kyle Ila betwixt it and Duray lyes ane
lyle callit in the Erischc Lcid Elian Cbarne in Englishe the
lyle of Earne. Her begin wee to Circle ell lyla sune gaittis
aboute with litle lyles.

HASSILL lYLE. 57.

Neirest this southwardes layes ane lyle callit in the Eirisch
Leid Elian Natravie in Englishe the Hessill lyle.

MULMOYRYS ILE. 58.

Neirest that at the said shore of Ila layes there ane litle
lyle called Elian M*^Mulwray callit in English Mulmoryis lyle.

sio. OFRIM. 59.

Narrest this at the said shore southwart lyes that lyle called
in Erische Ellam Ofriih.

BRYDES lYLE. 60.

Narrest to this at the said shore southwarte layes that lyle
which the Erishe name Elian Birde in English Bryds lyle.

CORS KER. 61.

Narrest this at the said shore layes ane litle lyle by the
Erische callit Cors Ker that is the Stay Skarey or Craige.

EISILACHE, 62.

Narrest to this is ther a small lyle at the said shore of Ila
wich the Erische call Elian Eisillache that is the Laiche Ivle.

MONROES WESTERN ISLES 273

IMERSKA. 63.
Narrest this layes the litle lyland Imerska.

BETHEY. 64.

Narrest to the lyle Imerska layes that lyle wich the Erische
name Elian Bethey.

TEGSAY. 65

Narrest this layes at the south Cost of Ila ther is ane lyle
callit by the Erishe Tegsay ane myle of lenthe, guid maine
land, and ane kirk in it, very guid it is for sheep and for
fishing.

SCHEIPIS lYLES. 66. siu

Narrest this layes Elian Nakerath by the Eirishe so called
and in Englishe the Scheipes lyle quilk is verey guid for the
same and for Come also.

MYRESUYPES lYLE. 67.

Narrest this to the southwarte layes ther ane litle lyle by
the Eirishe namit EUan na Naoske in Englische the Myre-
suypes lyle,

NESSE POYNTE lYLE. 68.

Narrest this layes ther ane Yile by the Erische namit in
ther Leide EUan Ryndnahard that is the lyle at the Nesse
poynt.

LYARTE lYLE. 69.

Narrest this layes Leach Elian by the Erische namit sa, in
Englisch namit the Lyort lyle

TAIRSKERAY. 70.

Narrest to this lays ane Yle by the Eirishe themselves callit
Tairskeray.

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ACHNARRA. 71.

Narrest to Tairskeray lyes the lyle namit Achnarra.

GRAIT lYLE. 72.

Neirest this layes that lyle by the Erische named Elian
Moire that is the Great lyle, good for store and pasturage.

THE lYLE OF THE MANS FIGURE. 7S.

Narrest to the Grate lie, layes that wich the Erische names
312. Elian calffe, callit in Englische the lyle of Mans figure.

JHONES lYLE. 74.

Narrest this layes Elian Ean, called in Englishe Jhones
lyle.

STAKBEADES. 75.

Narrest to this layes that lyle that the Erishe calls
Stakbeades.

OUERSAY. 76.

Narrest this at the West Poynt of Ila, lyes ane lyle callit
by the Erische Elian Ouersay ane myle in lenthe. It hath ane
paroch kirke and is verey guid for fishing, inhabit and manurit,
with ane right dangerous kyle and stream called Corey Gar-
raache, na man dare enter in it hot at ane certain tyme of the
tyde or ellis he will perish ; this lyl layes in lentil from the
southeist to the northwest.

THE MERCHANDS lYLE. 77.

Narrest this on the Northwest Coist of Ila lyes ane lyle
called by the Erische Elian Kenyth that is the Merchants

lyle.

USABRAST. 78.

Narrest this on the forsaid Northwest Coist of Da, lyes ane
lyle callit Usabrast good for grass and fishing.

MONROES WES11ERN ISLES 275

TANESTE, 79.

Narrest this on North Coist of, lyla, lyes ane lyle namit
EUan Taneste.

NEFE. 80.

Narrest the same on the North Coist of Ila, beside the^i5«
Entresse of Lochgrunord layes ane lyle called by ihe Erish
Elian Nefe with ane kirke in it. This lyle is half ane myle in
lenthe fair maynland. Inhabit and manurit, good for fishing.

VEBSTER lYLE. 81.

Narrest this Isle lyes ther one callet by the Eriche them-
selves Elian Nabaney that is Vebsters He.

ORUANSAY. 82.

North from Ila layes ane He callit Oruansay, it is twa myle
lange and neire alsmeikell in breidthe, quherin ther is ane
Monastery of Chanons. Mayne laiche land full of hairs and
foulmarts with convenient havens for heyland galeys and shald
at the shores. It layes 8 myles of sea north from Ila.

NAMUCKE. 8S.

Beside this lyle Oruansay layes ane uther He lesse then it
callit by the Erische Elian Namucke half ane myle lange wich
is guid for swyne and als uther hestiall.

COLUANSAY. 84.

Northwart from the lyle of Oruansay be ane halfe myle of
Sea lyes ane Isle callit CoUvansay 7 myle lange from the
Northeist to the Southwest, with twa myle bredthe, ane fertile
He, guid for quhit fishing, it hath ane paroch kirke. This
He is brukit be ane gentle Capitane callit M^DufFyhe, and
pertened of auld to Clandonald of Kyntyre.

MULLE. 85. sii

Twelfe myle Northward from the lyle of Coluansay lyes the
lyle of Mulle, ane grate roughe He nochtheles it is fertile and

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fruitful!. This lie contains in lenth from the Northeist to the
Southwest 24 myles and in breid from the Eist Southeist to
West Northwest uther 24 myles with certain woods. Maney
Deire and verey fair hunting games, with many grate mertines
and Cunnings for hunting ; with a guid raid foment Colmkill
called PoltaifFe. There is sevin paroche kirkes within this

• lyie and S Castles, to wit the Castle of Doward a strenthey
place bigged on a Craige at the sea syde. The Castle of
Lochbwy pertaining to M^Gillayne of Lochbwy. The Castle
of Arose quhilk in former tyme pertinet to the Lords of the
lyles, and now is bruked be M*^Gillayne of Doward. In this
lie there is twa guid fresche waters, ane of them are callit
Ananva and the Vater of Glenforsay full of salmond, with
uthers Waters that has salmond in them, but not in sic aboun-
dance as the twa forsaid waters. This lie hath als Salt Water
Loches to wit Loch Ear ane litle small Loche with guid take
of herringes this Loche layes in the southwest of the Countrey.
Ther is Lochefyne quherin there is a guid take of herrings.
North wart fra this Loch lyes Lochseaforte guid for the herring
fishing. Lykwayes on the East pairt of the Countrey layes
ane Loche callit Lochepetit, narrest this Loche in tlie Southe
Southeist layes Lochbwy, a fair braid Loche quherin there is
grat take of herring and uther iischings. As als within this
He ther is twa fresche water Loches, the ane is called Loche
Strathsenaban, with ane He in it callit by the Erishe Elian i

Strathsenaban, the uther fresche Water Loch is callit Loche I

S16. Baa with ane lyle therin. Thir iyles are baith strenthes and
inhabit. This lyle pertains pairtly to M*^Gillayne of Douard
pairtly to M^Gillayne of Lochbwy pairtly to M^'kjmnoun,
pairtly to the Clandonald of awld. This lyland layes hot
foure myle from the fir me land of Mori wane.

THE DOW ILE. 86.

At the southwest shore of the He of Mull, layes ane litle
He by the Erisch namit Elian Chane that is the Dow lylland.
Inhabit half a mile lange, fruitfull for corne and gressing with
ane havin for heighland boittis.

MONRO'S WESTERN ISLES 277

ERRAY. 87.

Northwest from this lie layes ane He namit by the Erishe
Elian Erray ane lyl of half myle lange and half my 1 braid,
guid main land inhabit and manurit, fruitfuU of come and
pastorage with aboundance of fisching.

COLMKILL. 88.

Narrest this be twa myles of sea, layes the He the Erische
callit I-colm-kill that is Sanct Colms He. Ane faire mayne
lie of twa myle lange and maire and ane myle braid, fertill
and fruitfuU of com and store, and guid for fishing. Within
this He there is a Monastery of Mounkes and ane uther of
Nuns with a paroche kirkeand sundrie uther Chapells dotat of
auld be the Kings of Scotland and be Clandonald of the lyles.
This Abbay forsaid wes the Cathedrall kirk of the Bischops of
the lyles sen the tyme they were expulsed out of the lyle of
Man by the Englishmen for within the Isle of Man wes 316,
ther Cathedrall kirke and living of auld as I have already
said in the description of that lie. Within this lie of
Colmkill, there is ane Sanctuary also, or Kirkaird callit in
Erische Religoran quhilk is a verey fair kirkzaird and weill
biggit about with staine and lyme. Into this Sanctuary ther
is three tombes of staine, formit like litle Chapels with ane
braid gray Marble or Quhin staine in the gavill of ilk ane of
the Tombes. In the staine of the ane Tombe there is wretten
ill Latin letters Tumuhis Regurn Scotice that is the Tombe ore
grave of the Scotts Kings. Within this Tombe, according to
our Scotts and Erische Cronickels ther layes 48 crowned Scotts
kings, throughe the quhilk this He hes beine richlie dotat be
the Scots Kings as we have said. The Tombe on the south-
syde forsaid hes this Inscriptione Tumulus Reffum Hybemice
that is the tombe of Irland kinges for we have in our auld
Erishe Cronickells that there wes 4 Irland Kings Eirdit in
the said Tombe. Upon the northsyde of pur Scotts Tombe,
the Inscriptione beares Ttimulus Regum Norwegke that is the
Tombe of the Kings of Norroway in the quhilk Tombe as we
find in our Ancient Erishe Cronickells ther layes 8 Kings of
Norroway, and als we find in our Erische Cronickells that

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Coelus King of Norroway commandit his Nobils to take his
bodey and burey it in Icolmkill if it chanceit him to die in
itr. the lies. Bot he was so discomfitit that ther remained not so
maney of his armey as wald bury him ther : therfor he wes
Eirded in Kyle after he strake ane feild against the Scotts and
wes vanquisht be them. Within this sanctuary also lyes the
maist pairt of the Lords of the lies with ther lineage. Twa
Clan Lynes with ther Lynage M^Kynnon and M*^6uare with
ther lineages with sundrie uthei"s Inhabitants of the haill
Isles, because this Sanctuary wes wont to be the sepulture of
the best men of all the lies, and als of our Kings as we have
said: because it wes the maist honorable and ancient place
that was in Scotland in their dayes as we reid.

SOA. 89

At the southweist end of this He of Colmkill layes ane He
callit Soa, quherin there is infinit number of wyld fowls nests.
It is halfe ane rayle in lenthe, verey good for sheepe, it per-
taines to Colmkill.

NABAN. 90,

On the Southeist syde of the lyland of Colmkill ther lyes
ane He callit in Erishe Elian Naban that is the Woemens He.
It is full of hedire, guid for store and fishing. It pertains
to Colmkill.

MORGAN. 91.

On the Northest end of Colmkill lyes ane litle He by the
Erish namit Elian Moroan ane litle laiche maine sandie He, full
of bent and guid for sheepe. It pertains to Colmkill.

RERINGE. 92.

Oil the Northsyde of Colmkill, layes ther ane litle lyle by
the namit Elian Reringe ane profitable He, yeilding verey
grate plentey of wyld fouls eggs and guid for fishing, per-
teining to Colmkill.

MONRO'S WESTERN ISLES «79

INCHE KENZIE. 98. 9is.

On the North and North northeist of Colmkill lyes ane
lyl be 12 myles of sea till within the Entres of Loche-
Scaford forsaid callit Inche Eenzie, halfe ane myle in lenthe
and not fully half a myle in breadthe, a fair lie fertill and
fruitful!. Inhabit and manurit, full of Cunings about the
shores of it, with a paroch Kirk the maist part of the parochin
being upon the mayne shoar of Mull being onlie ane half myle
distant from the said He. And the haill parochin of it per-
tains to the Prioress of Colmkill.

EORSAY. 94.

Within this lyle of Inch Eenzic in the said Loche of Scafart
be ane myle of sea lyes ane He callit Eorsay, ane fertile lie
full of come and grassing mair then a myle lange, pertaining
to the Prioress of Colmkill.

CALFA. 95.

Upon the neirest Coste of MuUe lyes ane lyle callit the
Calfe ane myle of lenth full of woods with ane sufficient raid
for Shipes, pertayning to M^Gillane of Douard.

THE GLASSE ILES. 96.

Before the Castell of Aross lyes ther twa lies the one callit
by the Erische Glassmoire the uther Glass^beg and in the
south eist fra that throughe the Kyle of MuUe layes the said
twa lies, pertaining to M^Gillaine of Douard.

ARDIN RIDIR. 97.

From the twa Glass lies to the southeist, layes ane lie callit si9,
by the Erishe Ardin Ridir, that is the He of the Knights Ness,
pertaining to M^Gillayne of Douard.

ELLAN MADIE. 98.
Southward from Douard lyes ane He upon the shore side

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namit EUan Madie by the Erische, it is verey guid for store,
being bentey : it perteins to M^Gillane of Douard.

ELLAN MOm, 99.

Southwest from Elian Madie upon the shore of MuUe, lyes
ane Ue callit by the Erishe Elian Moir, gud for store and for
fishing, pertaining to M^Gillayne of Lochbuy.

RONIN. 100.

Sexteine myle northwayte from the He of Coll lyes ane
lie callit Ronin He of 16 myle lang and six in breadthe in
the narrowest, ane forest of heigh montains and abundance of
litle Deir in it, quhilk deir will never be slaine dounewith,
bot the Principall saitts man be in the heigh of the hill
because the Deire will be callit upwart ay be the Teinchell
or without tynchals they will pas upwart perforce. In this
He will be gotten about Bretane als many wylds nests upon
the plane Mure, as men pleasis to gadder, and by resson
the fowls hes few to start them except Deir. This Isle lyes
from the West to the eist in lenth, and pertains to M^'kenabrey
of Colla. Maney Soland geisse are in this Isle.

THE HORSE ILE. 101.

Be foure of sea toward the southeist layes ane litle lie half
ane myle lang callit by the Erische EUan na Neache that is in
SW. Englische the Horse He guid for horse and uther store, pertein-
ing to the Bishope of the lies.

SWYNES ILE. 102.

Be ane haiFe myle of sea to this Ue lyes ane He twa myle
lang callit in Erische EUan Maneache that is the Swyne's
He, and verey fertill and fruitfuU of Comis and grassings for
all store and verey guid for fishing, inhabit and manurit, a
good Falcon nest in it. It perteynis to the Bishope of the
lies, with ane guid heighland haven in it, the Entrey
quherof is at the west cheike.

MONRO'S WES11ERN ISLES 281

KANNAY. 108.

Be twa myle of sea, towards the Northwest, towards the lie of
Ronin, layes ane lie callit Kan nay, faire inaine land foure myle
lang inhabit and manurit with a paroche kirke in it, guid for
Come, fisching and grassing with a Falcon Nest in it, pertines
to the Abbot of Colmkill.

EGGA. 104.

North from Ellan-muche be foure myles lyes ane He callit
the He of Egga foure myle lange and twa myle braid, guid
inaine land with a paroche Kirke in it and maney Solan geese
and verey guid for store namelie for sheip, with a heavin for
heighland boittis.

SOA URETILL. 105.

Norteist be 12 myles of sea from the He Ronin Uyes ane He
of halfe myle in lenth callit Soa Uretill, ane roughe lie quherin
deir uses to be, and hunting games. It pertaines to M*^Cloid
of Heray.

SKY. 106.

North fra the He of Soa Uretill be twa myle of sea Lyes
the grate He of Sky tending from the South to the North to 321,
42 myles roughe and hard land, thats to say, from the south
poynt of Sleitt to the north point of Trouternesse and 8 myle
braid in some places, and in uther places 12 myles braid. In
this He ther is 12 parish Kirkes, manurit and inhabit, fertill
land namelie for Aitis excelling aney uther ground for gi'ass-
ings and pastoures. Abounding in store and of Studds in it,
•maney Woods, maney forrests, maney Dei re fair hunting games,
maney grate hills principally Guilvelinii and Gannock. Within
this He ther is gud take of salmont upone 5 Vatters principally
to wit the water of Sneisport, Sligachan, Straitswardill, Ran-
lagallan and Killintyne with 7 or 8 smaller waters quherupon
salmond are also slayne. In this He there is ane freshe water
Loche callit the Loche of Glenmoire quheron ther is abound-
-ance of salmont & [kipper] slaine. Within this He of Sky there

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is 5 Castells, to wit, the Castell of Dunbeggan pertaining to
Myeloid of Herray ane starke strength biggit upon ane Craige^
the Castell on Dunnakyne perteining to Mackynnoun, the
Castell of Duringill perteining to the said Mackynnoun, the
Castell of Camus in Sleitt perteining to Donald Gromsone, the
Castell of Dunskay perteining to the said Donald Gromsone, the
Castle of Dounwyline perteining to Donald Gromsone lykways.
Within this He ther is 7 Sundrey Countreys, to wit, Slaitt
perteining to Donald Gormsone ; Straytsnardill perteining to
Mackynnoun quhilk lyes next the Sleitt; Menzenise pertein-
ing to M°Cloyde of Herray ; Brachedill perteining to the said
MacCloyd ; Wattemess perteining to MacCloyd of the Lewis,
and Troutirness perteining to Donald Gormesoue. Into this
st^. He there is thre Principall Salt Water Loches, to wit Loch
Liegachan, Loch Lownort and Loch Sleippan. In thir three
principall Loches there is good take of heirrings, for by three
principall Loches there is IS Salt Watter Loches within this^
Isle, to wit.

1. Loche Skahanask,

S. Loche Emorte,

3. Loche VrakdiU,

4. Loche Kensale Serloss,

5. Loche Dunebegan,

6. Loche Gorsarmis,

7 Loche ArnofFort,

8 Loche Snasporte,

9 Loche Portri,

10 Loche Ken,

11 Loche Nadalae in Sleitt.

The uther twa Loches my memorey is fay led of them, bot ivt
many of them ther is guid take of herrings some tymes bot
nought sa guid by far as in the 3 first Loches. This He is
callit by the Erishe Elian Skyaine that is to say in Englishe
the Wingitt He, be reason it hes maney wyngs and points
lyand furth fra it ; through the devyding of thir Loches.

ORANSAY. 107.
About this He of Sky ther lyes in ane drkell certaine lies

MONROE WESTERN ISLES 28S

to wit at the West syde of Sleit, lyes ane callit Oransay ane
myle lange Inhabit and manurit guid land, perteining to
Donald Gormesone.

NAGOYNEYNE. 108. sgs.

Foment Loche Alshe lyes ane He callit in Erishe Elian
Nagoyneyne that is to say Cunings He, full of Woode and
Cunings, hafe ane myle in lenth, it perteynes to Mackenzie.

PABAY. 109.

At the shore of Sky foi'said, lyes ane He callit Pabay neyre
ane myle in lenthe, full of woodes, guid for fishing and a maine
shelter for theives and cut-throats, it pertains to M^kynnoun.

SCALPAY. 110.

Fra this He of Pabay Northwest be aught myle of sea lyes
ane lie callit Scalpay 4 myle lange and als meikle in breid ane
faire hunting forrest full of deire with certaine litle Wbodis
and small tounis, weill inhabit and manurit with many
strenthey coves, guid for fishing, in heritage it perteines to
M^Gillayne of Dowarde.

GROWLING, 111.

Growling ane small He yea rather a guid raid, betwix tiie
mouth of Loche Garron and the He of Raarsay.

RAARSAY. 112.

Twa myle off sea fra the He of Scalpay forsaid lyes ane He
callit Raarsay 7 myle lange from the southe to the northe bot
ane myle of sea from Trouternesse and twa myle of breid with
pairt of birkin Woodes, maney Deires, pairt of profitable landis, si^
inhahit and manurit, with twa Castles, to wit, the Castle of
Killmorocht and the Castle of Brolokit with twa fair Orchards
at the said twa Castdls with ane paroche kirke called Eill-
molowocke, ane roughe Countrey bot all full of free-staines

284 MONRO'S WESTERN ISLES

& guid quarelles. It is excellent for fishitig, pertaining to
M^GyllyChallan of Raarsay be the sword, and to the Bishope
of the lies by Heritage. This same MK^illyChallan suld obey
MKi^lovd of the Lewis.

RONAY. 113.

At the North end of Raarsay be halfe myle of sea fra it
layes ane He callit Ronay mair then a myle in lenthe full of
wood and heddir with ane havin for hieland galeys in the
middis of it, and the same havein is quyed for fostering of
theives, ruggars, and reivars, till a nail upone the peilling and
spulzeing of poure pepill. This He perteins to M^GillyChallan
of Raarsay by force, and to the Bishope of the lies be heritage.

ELLAN GEARLOCHIE. 114.

Elian Gearlochie a guid raid for the shipes in the mouthe
of Locheber.

FLADDAY. 115.

su. To the north fra Ronay be sex mile of sea lyes ane He
namit Fladay ane maine laiche lie, half ane myle lange. In-
habit and manurit, fruitfuU in corne and grassing perteining
to Donald Gx)rmesone.

TUILIN. 116.

Narrest the Fladay be twa myle of sea at the shore of
Troutemesse lyes ane lie callit Elian Twilin haffe myle lange
or therby manurit guid for corne and store, perteining to
Donald Gormesone.

117.

Four myle of sea fra this He TwiHn northwart lyes ane He

callit

CRANSAY. 118.

Upon the coste of Sky be ane half myle to the shore of

MONROES WESTERN ISLES 285

Brakadill is ane lie callit Cransay, halfe myle lange ane boney
lie for come and gersing perteiniiig to M^Cloyd of Herray.

BWYA MOIR. 119.

Be ane myle of sea to this'IIe of Cransay lyes ane callit
Bwya Moir guid for Come and store perteining to M^'Cloyd of
Herray.

Narrest the He of Bwya Moir lyes 4 small lies, quhose names
the author hes left blanks for, with the numbers of 120, 121,
122, 123.

Befor the Castell of Dunbegan lyes three small lies, to wit,
124, 125, 126.

ISAY. 127.

At the shore of Waternesse lyes ane He callit Isa ane faire
laiche He, inhabit and manurit, verey fertill and fruitfull for
corn and gersing, ane myle lange and half myle braid, having
beside it ane uther laiche He full of sheepe. This He is guid
for fishing, quilk lies pertines to M^^Cloid of the Lewis.

ASKERIN. 128. Si6.

On the eist shore of Wattirness lyes ane He callit Elian
Askerin abounding in grassing and pasture, maire usit for
sheilling and pasture then for Corne land : guid for fishing
and slaughter of selchis, perteining to M^Cloyd of Lewis,

LINDILL. 129.

Upon the shore of Askerin lyes ane He callit Elian Lindill,
verey guid for bear and for pasture of sheepe, it perteines to
M^Cloyd of Heray.

LING AY. 130.

From the He of Sky towards the southwest be fourscoire
myles of sea lyes ane He callit Lingay, giiid for gressing and
fishing, ane He of halfe myle lange. It hes a Falcon nest in
it, perteins to the Bishop of the lies.

286 MONROE WESTERN ISLES

GIGARUN. 181

Back wart to the noi*th besydes the lie of Lingay lyes ane
lyl callit Gigarun, half myle lang, perteining to the Bishop of
the Ivies*

BERNERAY. 132.

Besydes the He of Gigarun toward the North, lyes ane lyle,
Inhabit and manurit, ane myle lange callit Bemeray, very
fertill and guid for fishing, perteining to the Bishop of the
lyles.

MEGALY. 133.

Besydes the He of Bemeray towards the North lyes ane He
callit Megaly twa myle lang Inhabit and veill manuritt, guid
for fishing and come, perteining to the Bishop of the lyles.

PABAY. 134.

Besydes the Isle of Megaly to the North northeist lyes ane
^f7. He callit Pabay ane mile lange, manurit. In it is guid take of
fisch, it pertaines to the Bishope of the Isles.

FLADAY. 135.

Besides the Isle of Pabay lyes ane prettey litle Isle to the
northwart callit Fladay, of ane mile lange, fruitfuU in come
and als in fishing, pei*teining to the Bishope of the Isles.

SCARPNAMUT. 136.

Neire the He of Fladay towards the North lyes ane He
namit Scarpnamutt twa myle lange, with a hake nest in it,
full of pastures and verey guid for fishing, perteining to the
Bishop of the Isles.

SANDERAY. 137.

Nixt to the forsaid lie lyes ther ane uther callit Sanderay
Inhabit and manurit, guid for com and fishing, twa myle
lange. it perteines to the Bishope of the lies.

MONRO'S WESTERN ISLES 287

WAITERSAY. 138.

Besides this He northwart lyes ane He callit Vatersay, twa
myle in lenth and ane myle in breadthe, ane excellent Raid
for shippes that comes ther to fisch, ane faire maine land
inhabit and manurit, abounding in come and gersing with
good pastorage for sheepe. All thir 9 lies forsaid had a
Chapell in every He. This He perteyns to the Bishope of
the Hes.

BARRAY. 139. sua.

Not far from this He of Watersay towards the north be twa
myle of the sea lyes the He of Barray, being 7 myle in lenthe,
from the south west to the northeist and be north and 4 in
breadth from the southeist to the northwest : ane fertile and
fruitfuU in comes, abounding in the fisliing of Keilling, Ling,
and all uther quhyte fish, with ane paroch kirke namit Kill-
bare. Within the southwest end of this He ther enters a salt
watter Loche, verey narrow in the Entres and round and
braide within. Into the middis of the saids Loche there is
ane Casle, in ane He upon ane strentliey Craige callit Eileuin
perteining to M^kneill of Baray. In the north end of this Isle
of Barray ther is ane round heigh know mayne grasse and
greine round about it to the heid on the top of quilk ther is
ane spring and fresche water well. This well treuly springs
up certaine litle round quhyte things less nor the quantity of
ane confeit come lykes to the shape and figour of ane litle
Cokill, as it appearit to me. Out of this well runs ther ane
litle strype downwith to the sea, and quher it enters the sea
there is ane myle braid of sands, quilk ebbs ane myle, callit
the Trayrmore of Killbarray that is the grate sands of Barray.
This sand is all full of grate Cokills and alledgit be the
ancient Countreymen that the same cokills comes down out of
the forsaid hill throughe said strype in the first small forme
that we have spoken off and after ther coming to the saidis ^^^«
sandis growis grate Cokills alwayes. Ther is na fairer and
more profitable sands for cokills in all the world. This Isle
pertains to M^'kneiU of Barray.

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ORVANSAY, 140.

Betwix Barray and Ywist ther lyes first Orvansay half myle
lange with ane falcone nest, ane guid profitable lie manurit,
guid for sheepe, perteining to McNeill of Barray.

NACHARRACHE. 141 .

Besides this Isle Lyes Elian Nacharrach by the Erishe so
callit and in Englishe the Sheips He, ane litle lie full of
grassing and store, perteining to M^kneill of Barray,

NAHAKERSAIT. 142.

Nairest this forsaid He lyes ane He called Nahakersait half
a myle lange with ane heavin for heighland galleyis, perteynis
to McNeill of Barray.

GARULANGA. 143.

Besides this He lyes ane He callit Garulanga guid for fishing,
and verey fruitfuU, perteining to Makneill of Barray.

FLADAY. 144.

Besydes this lyes ane He callit Fladay half myle lange with
ane Falcone nest in it, verey fertile and fruitfuU, it pertaines
to McNeill of Barray.

BWYABEG. 145.

Besides Flada layes ane lie namit Bwyabeg halfe myle lang
guid for gersing and fishing, perteining to M^^kneill of Barray,

sso. BWYA MOIR. 146.

Narrest Bwya Beg lyes ane He namit Bwya Moir twa myle
lange, manurit, full of gersing and pasture with ane falcon nest
in it, pertaining to Mak Neill of Barray.

HAY. 147.

Not far from Bwya Moir, lyes ane He callit Hay halfe a
myle lang, fertill and fruitfuU, and guid for fishing, perteining
to McNeill of Barray.

MONRO'S WESTERN ISLES 289

HELLESAY. J 48.

Besides Hay lyes ane He callit Hellesay ane myle lange,
fertill and fruitfiiU, weill manurit and excellent for all sort of
quhyte fishe taking. It perteins to MakNeill of Barray.

GIGAY. 149.

Besides this He lyes ane He callit Gigay ane myle lang,fertil
and fruitfully guid for store and fishing, perteining to Mak-
Neill of Baray.

LINGAY. 150.

Nan-est to Gigay lyes ane He callit I^ingay half mile lange
ane verey guid He for greasing pastures and for Sheiling, per-
taining to Makneill of Ban*ay.

FERAY. 151. SSL

Besides this He lyes ane He laiche, namit by the Erishe
Feray hafTe a mile lange, guid for come and gersing and
excellent for fishing, perteining to MackNeill of Barray.

FUDAY. 152.

Besides this He lyes ane maine sandey He callit Fuday,
fertill for beare and murenis, the quhilk He pay murenis zeirly
to MakNeill of Barray for pairt of mailles and dewties.

ERISKERAY. 15S.

To the Eist of this He of Fuday be three myle of sea lyes
ane He callit Eriskeray, twa myle lang, inhabit and manurit.
In this He ther is day lie gottin aboundance of verey grate pintill
fishe at Ebb seas and als verey guid for uther fishing, pertein-
ing to Mackneill of Barray.

YWST. 154.

North wart fra thir Isles forsaid, lyes the grate He of Ywst
84 mile lange from southwest to the northeist, sex myle braid,
ane fertile Countrey and maine laiche land, full of heigh hills

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and forresis on the eist Cost, ore southeist and all plenisht
^^. laiche land on the nortwest, with five paroche kirkes. Within
this south part of Ywst on the east coste of the same, layes
ane salt watter Loche callit Vayhastill. This Countrey is
bruiked by sundrey Captains, to wit, the southwest end of it
callit Baghastill be M^'kneill of Barray. The rest of the lie
namit Peiters parochin, the parochin of Howse and the mayne
land of the Mid Countrey called Machermeanache pertains to
Clanronald balding of the Clandonald. At the end heirof
the sea enters and cutts the Countrey by Ebbing and flowing
through it, and in the northsyde of this ther is ane parochin
called Buchagla perteining to the said Clandonald. At the
north end therof the sea cutts the Countrey againe and that
cutting of the sea is called Careynesse and benorth this the
Countrey is callit Kenchnache of Ywst, that is the North head
of Ywst in English, quilk termis twa paroche kirks and is mair
of profit then the rest of haill of Ywst, pertaining to Donald
Grormesone. In this He ther are infinit numljer of fresh water
Loches, bot ther is ane maine Loch callit Lochebi, three myie
large and ane arme of the sea hes worne the Earth that wes at
the ane end of this Loche quilk the sea hes gottin Entres to
this freshe water Loche. In that narrow Entres that the sea
hath gottin to the Loche, The Countrey men hes bigit upe
:fS3, ane thicke dyke of rough staines and penneystanes cast, lange
narrest. Notwithstanding the flowing streams of the sea
enters throughe the said dyke of staines in the said frescfae
water Loche and so ther is continually get tin stiking amange
the roughe staines of the said Dyke, Fluikis, Podlocks, Skatts,
and Herings. Upone this Loche there is gottin a kyod of
fische of the quantitie and shape of a salmont but it hes no
skaiils at all, the under half narrest his Vombe is quhyte and
the upmaist hafie nearest his Back is als black as Jett, with
finis like a salmont Into this north heid of Ywst ther is
sundry Covis and holes in the earth coverit with heddir above,
quhilke fosters maney rebellis in the Countrey of the North
heid of Ywst

MONRO'S WESTERN ISLES 291

165.

Betwixt the Kentnache and Benvalgha lyes ane verey small
He callit

HELSKER NAGAILLON. 166.

Be 8 myle of sea from this He towards the West lyes ane
He, 4 myle and half myle braid, laiche maine land callit
Hesker Nagaillon. It lies aboundance of come and elding for
fire. It pertains to the Nuns of Colmkill.

HAYSKER. 167.

To the northwest fra this Kentnache of Ywst be 12 myle of
sea lyes ane He callit Haysker quherin infinit slaughter of
selchis is. This He pertains to Donald Gormeson.

HIRTA. 158.

To the West Northwest of this Isle forsaid, out in the^^«
mayne Ocean seas, be threescore of myle of sea layes ane He callit
Hirta, ane maine laiche Isle sa far as is manurit of it, aboun-^
dant in Come and gressing namelie for sheipe, for ther ar fairer
and greiter sheip ther and larger tailled then ther is in any
uther He aboute. The inhabitants therof are simple poor
people, scarse learnit in aney religion, Bot Myeloid of Herray
his Stewart or he quhom he deputs in sic office, sailles anes in
the Zeir ther at Midsummer with some chaplain to baptize
bairns ther, and if they want a Chaplaine they baptise ther
bames themselves. The said Stewart, as he himself tauld me,
4ises to take ane maske of malt ther with a masking fatt and
makes his malt and ere the fat be ready, the commons of the
town both men and weemen and Bairnes puts their hands in
ihe fatt and findis it sweit, and greyns after the sweitness of
it, quhilk they leave nather wirt nor draffe unsupped out ther,
<]uharwith baith men women and bairnes were deid drunken
sua that they could not stand upon their feett. The said
Stewart receives ther dewties in Meill and reistit mutton, wyld
fouUis reistit, and selcheis. This He is maire nor ane myle
lange and narrest als mekill in braid, quilk is not seine of anev

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shore, bot at the shoresyde of it lyes three gratt hill!<i, quhilk
are ane pairt of Hirta quhilk are seen affar off from the fore-
land is. In this fair He is fair sheipe. Falcon nests & wyld
fouls biggand, bot the streamcs of the sea are starke, and are
verey eivill entring in aney of the saids lies.
SS5. This He of Hirta pertains of auld to MHUloid of Herray.

VALAY. 159.

At the north west coist of the forsaid Kentnache lyes an
He call it Valay, twa myle lang from the North to south, ane
myle braid, a fayr Mayne He, inhabit, and perteining to Donald
Gormesone.

SO A. 160.

Betwix Kentnache and the HeiTay lyes ane He callit Soa
inhabit and manurit, ane myle lang, mayne land, perteining to
Donald Gormesone.

Thk PIGMEIS ILE. 161.

At the north poynt of Lewis there is a litle He callit the
Pigmeis He with ane litle kirk in it of ther aun handey wark.
Within this kirk the ancients of that Countrey of the Lewis
sayes that the saids Pigmeis has been Eirdit thair. Maney
men of diverse Countreys hes delvit upe deiplie the flure of the
litle kirk, and I myselve amanges the leave, and hes found in it
deepe under the Erthe certaine baines and round heads of
wonderful! litle quantity, allegit to be the baines of the saids
Pigmeis, quhilk may be lykly, according to sundrey historeys
that we reid of the Pigmeis, bot I leave this far of it to the
Ancients of Lewis. This Isle perteins to M^Cloyd of the
Lewis.

FABILL. 162.

Besouth this at the southeist shore of the Lewis iyis ane He
callit Elian Fabill, verey guid for waike store and fisching,.
pertaining to M^Cloyd of Lewis.

MONROES WESTERN ISLES 298

ADAIN. 163.

South fra this said Cost lyes Elian Adain maniirit, guid for
waike bestiall, pertaining to M^^Cloyd of the Lewis.

NA NAUN. 164. SS6.

Upon the said shore towards the West lyes Elian NaNaun
that is the Lambes lie, wherin all the Lambes of that end of
the countrey uses to be fed, and spained fra the zowes. This
lie pertaines to Macl^yd of the Lewis.

HUILURE. 165.

Betwix this He and Steomoway ther lyes Elian Huilure
manurit and guid for store and come pertaining to MacCloyd
of the Lewis.

VIC-COUILL. 166.

Southwart from this He, lyes Elian Vic CouU ane guid He
for corne, store and fishing, pertaining to Macloyd of the
Lewis.

HALEURAY. 167.

Besides this lyes Haleuray ane guid He for Corne and
grassing, excellent for fisching, of ane myle of lenth, perteining
to MacCloyd of Lewis.

LAXAY. 168.

Besides this lyes the He of Laxay ane guid He, full of come
and gressing and als fisching, perteining to M^Cloyd of Lewis.

ERR. 169.

Besides this He of Laxay lyes ane He callit Err which is in
Inglish Irland, laiche niayne and full of Corne, and perteining
to M^Cloyd of the Lewis.

ST. COLMES ILE. 170.
Within the Loches forsaid lyes Ellan-Colmkill, that is in SSf.

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English St. Colmes He. Within this He Macloyde of the
Lewis hes ane faire Orchard, and he that is Gardener has that
He free, guid in mayneland for come and gersing and fisching,
perteining to Macloyde of the Lewis.

TOORAY. 171.

Besides this lie, lyes ane He namit Elian Tooray, ane He
Weill manurit, guid for corn grass and fisching, perteining to
MacLoyd of the Lewis.

ELLAN IFURDE. 172.

South warte from this lyes ane He callit Elian Ifurde [PHurte],
with manurit land, guid to pasture and scheilling of store with
faire hunting of Ottei*s out of their bouries. It pertainis to
Myeloid of Lewis.

SCALPAY of HARRAY. 173.

Southwarte fare from this lyes ane He callit Scalpay of
Harray twa mile lange, ane profitable He in com, gressing and
fishing. It perteins to MacLoyd of Harray.

FLADAY. 174.

Towards the Northeist from this lie be 20 myle of sea, lyes
ane lie in the sea callit Fladay, halfe myle lang, ane profitable
He in com and grassing and fisching, perteining to DoDald
Gormesone.

SENTA. 175.

North wart fra this He lyes there ane He callit Elian Sentain
English a Saw, ane He mair than twa myle lang, verey profitable
for come, store and fishing, perteining to MacLoyd of the
Lewis. On the Eist syde of this He ther is a bore, maid lyke a
SS8. Vylt, maire nore ane arrow shote of any man under the Eirde,
throw the quhilk vylte we use to row ore saiU with our boittis,
for feare of the horrible breake of the seas that is on the outwar
side therof, bot na grate shipes can saill ther. It pertains to
Macleod of the Lewis.

MONRO'S WESTERN ISLES 295

SENCHASTLE. 176.

Be eist this lie lyes ane He callit Senchastle by the Erisch
that is the Aide castle in the Englishe ane strenthe full of
come and grassings, full of wyld fowls nests, and verey guid for
fishing. It perteines to MacLeod of the Lewis.

ELLAN E\V. 177.

Upon the shoire of Lochebrune lyes Elian Ew, hafFe myle in
lenthe, full of woods guid for theives to waitt upon their mens
gaire. It pertains to M^Enzie.

GRUYNORDE. 178.

Northwarte from this He lyes the He of Gruynorde mair nore
ane myle lange, full of wood, guid for fostering of theives and
rebells. It perteins to MacEnzie.

NA CLERACHE. 179.

Northwarte from this He lyes ane He callit Elian Naclerache
haffe myle lange, guid for gersing, and wyld fouls eggs, pertein-
ing to M^Enzie.

AFUILL. 180.

Narest this lyes the He by the Erishe callit Elian Afuill
guid for store and fishing.

HAWRARY MOIR. 181. m.

Narrest this lyes Hawrary Moir by the Erish sa callit.

HAWRARY BEG. 182.
Besydes this lyes ane Illand namit Hawrarey beg.

NANEACHE. 183.
Besides this lyes ane Hand by the Erishe callit NaNeache.

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MERTARGE. 184.
Besides this lyes Hand Mertarge.

SOYA MOIR. 185.

Besides this layes ane He cailit by the Erish themselves
Soya Moir, it is ane myle of lenthe, verey fertill and fruitful!
excellent for fisching.

ELLAN USA. 186.

Besides this lyes an He named by the Erishe Elian lisa^
manurit, feii;il] and fruitful!.

SEUNABEG. 187.

Besides this lyes ther ane He Seunabeg, manurit, fertile
and fruitfully guid for conie, store and fisching, half ane
myle lange.

SEUNA MOIR. 188.

Besydes this Seuna Moir, ane He of a myle of lenthe and
half myle breadth, Inhabit and manurit, guid for Come,
store and fishing.

TARANDSAY. 189.

Besides this lyes Tarandsay ane He of 5 myle lang and half
340. myle braid, ane rough He with certaine tounis, weill inhabit and
manurit, bot all this fertile is delved with spaides excepting sa
meikell as ane horse pleuch will teill, and yet they have maist
aboundance of beir, meikel of store and fishing. It perteins
to MacCloyd of Harrey.

SLEGEIN. 190.

Besides this lyes the He of Slegein, manurit, guid for come,
store and fishing, perteining to Macloyd of Harrey.

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TIVEIN, 191.

Besides this lyes Tivein, anc He guid for store, corne and
fishing, perteyning to Macloyd of Han'ey.

SCARPE. 192.

Besydes this out in the sea about Usenesse in Harrey lyes
ane He callit the Scarpe, fertile and fruitfull, guid for corne,
store and fishing, pertaining to Mncloyde of Harrey.

Aboute the Northwest Coste of the Lewis Towards
the Mayne Occident Seas, lyes certain lies of quhome
we will make mention, before that we shall begin
with Harrey & Lewis, to wit,

7 HALLY ILES. 193.

First, furth 50 myle in the Occident Seas from the Coste 0(341.
the parochin Vye in Lewis, towartis tiie Northwest, lyes the
7 lies of Flanayn, claid with girth, and Haly lies, verey natural
gressing within thir saids lies, Infinit wyld sheep therein
quhilk na man knawes to whome the said scheipe apperteins
within them that lives of tiie Countreynien ; hot Macloyd of
the Lewis at certaine tymes in the Zeir sendis men in and
huntis and slayis maney of thir scheipe. The flesche of thir
sheipe cannot be eaten be honest men for fatnesse, for there is
no fleche on them, bot all quhyte lyke Talloune, and it is werey
wyld gusted lykways. The saids lies arc nouder manurit nor
inhabit bot full of grein high hills, full of wild sheipe in ya vii
lies forsaids, quhilk may not be outrun e. They pertaine to
Macloyd of the I^wis.

GARVELLAN. 194.

Besides this Coste of l^wis towards the said northwest, lyes
ane lie callit Qarvellan, guid for store and fisching.

LAMBAY, 195.

Besides this lie lyes ane uther He namit Lambay, guid also
for store and iisching, perteining to Macloyd of I^wis.

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FLADAY196.

Besides the He of Lambay lyes ane uther He by the Erish
namit Fladay of the Lewis, ane pretty laiche Fie, guid for store
and fisching. It apperteins to Macloyd of the Lewis.

$42. KEALNSAY. 197.

Besides this lyes Kealnsay ane guide He narrest ane myle
lange fruitful! for store and fishing and als manuritt, per-
teining to Macloyd of I^wis.

BEARNERAY BEG. 198.

Besides this Kealnsay forsaid layes Berneraybeg, haife ane
myle lange and ane myle of breathe, ane laiche roughe He full
of litle rough Craiges and how betwix, of naturall fertile eirtbe,
with infinite sea vare on every ^ore. of the same. This He is
Weill inhabit and manurit and will give yerly mare nor 200 bows
of beire with delving only. It perteins to Macloyd of Ixwis.

BEARNERAY MOIR. 199.

Besides this lyes Beameray Moir, ane He of 5 myle bmg
inhabit and manurit, fertill and fruitful!, with maney pastures
and mekell store, guid for fisching and fewell also. It perteins
to Macloyd of tiie Lewis.

KERTAY. 200.

Besides this He lyes Kertay ane He of a myle in lenthe
Inhabit and manurit, fertill and fruitful!, guid for store and
fishing, perteining to Macloyd of the I^wis.

BUYA BEG. 201.

Besides this lyes Buyabeg ane He inhabit an^} manurit, guid
for corne, store and fisching pertaing to Macloyd of the Lewis.

BUYA MOIR. 202.

$4$, Besides this lyes Buya Moir the He sa callit by the Erishe,

MONRO'S WESTERN ISLES 299

mair nore ane mvlc lange, inhabit and inanurit, guid for corne,
store and fisching, pertaining to Macloyd of the Lewis.

VAXAY, 203.

Besides this lyes ane He by the Erishe namit Vaxay, ane
guid mayne He of ane myle lenth. Inhabit and manurit, full of
natural pasture, for store and fisching and excellent guid
fewali, peiieins to M^loyd of the Lewis.

PABAY 204.

Besides theis lies lyes Pabay, ane He mair nore ane myle lange,
ane fruitful! and fertile Mayne He, full of corne & scheipe,
({uherin ther was a kirk, quherein also Mac-cleod of the Lewis
ussit to dwell, quhen he wald be qiiyit or yit fearit. This He
is guid for fishing, and pertains to Mac cloyd of the Lewis.

SIGRAIN MOIR NAGOINEIN. 205.

Besides this Pabay layes the He which the Erislimen calleth
Sigrain-Moir Nagoinein, that is to say the Cuninges He, quherin
ther are maney Cuninges. This He is guid for gressing and
fisching, and perteins to Macloyd of the Lewis.

SIGRAIN BEG. 206.

Besides this He lyes Sigrain beg, ane fertill and fruitful! He,
guid for come, gressing and fisching, ane myle of !enthe, it
pertaines to Mac cloyd of the I^wis.

HARREY. 207.

Now wee returne I)ack wards to Harrey ()uhilk is lK>t ane He 344*
and tlie Lewis togidder, extending in !entli from the southwest
to the northeist to tlireescoir of niyles, and from the North-
west to the southeist 16 myle in breid. Within the south
pairt of this He lyes ane Monastery with ane Steipeli, quhilk
wes foundit and biggit by M^Cloyd of Harrey callit Roodill.
This south pairt of the Countrey called Harrey is verey fertill
and fruitfull for corne, store and fisching, twysse mair of

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delving in it nor of teilling. Within this end of the Countrey
ther is ane Water with ane guid take of salmont fishing in it,
with ane highe greine hill callit Copefaal, maist excellent for
sheepe in ye pairts wheron ther wes sheepe, quhen I wes ther,
without aimers and verey aid. In this Countrey of Harrey
northwart betwix it and the Lewis, are maney forrests, quherin
are aboundance of Deir, bot not gi'eate quantitie, very faire
hunting games without any woodes, with infinit slaughter
of Otters and matricks. This lie hes nather Wolfes, taides
nor edders in it.

Lewis is the north pairt of this lie and the maist also, faire
and Weill inhabit at the coste, ane fertile and ftnitfull
Countrey, for the maist pairt beire, with 4 paroclie kirkes, and
with ane Castell callit Steomaway, with 3 principal! Salt water
Loches, very guid for take of herrings, to wit, Loche Selga
farrest to the southwest, Loche Fasirt northwart fra that, ane
^45, Loche that is lang and hes certaine small Loches in it quilke
for the same cause is callit the Loches. By these there is uther
3 loches not eivill quhylomes for take of herrings, to wit,
Loche Steomaway, with infinit fresche water Loches. In this
Lewis, ther ai'e 8 waters with take of salmont. In this He
there ai*e many sheip for it is verey guid for the same, for they
lay furth ever one mures and glens and nevir enters in a house
and ther wool is bot anes in the Zeire plukit off them in soroe
fauldes. In this Countrey all is peit mossland at the Sea cost,
and the plaice where he winns his peitts this Zeire, there he
sawis his corne the nixt zeire, after that he guiddsit weill with
sea ware. A grate take of whales is oftimes in this Countrey
so that be relatione of the maist ancient in this Countrey,
there comes 26 or 27 quhails young and auld to the teynd
anes ther. There is a Cove in this Countrey (|uherin the sea
fallis, and is twa fadome deepe at the Ebb sea and four
faddome and maire at the full sea. Within this Cove there
uses Whyteins to he slain with huikes, verey maney haddocks
and men with ther wands sitting upon the Craiges of that Cove
and Lades and Women also.

RONAY. 208.
Towarts the north northeist from Lewis threescore myles of

MONRO'S WESTERN ISLES 301

sea lyes ane litle lie callit Roiiay, laiclie iiiayne land inhabit
and nianiirit be simple people scant of any religion. This lie 546,
is uther hafle myle lange and haiTe myle braid, aboundance of
come growes on it by delving onlie, aboundance of clover
gersse for sheipe. There is ane certain number of Ky and
sheip ordainit for this He be ther auen auld right, extending
to so maney as may be sustainit upon the said gressing and
the countrey is so fertill of gersing that the superexcrescens
of the said ky and sheipe, baithe feidis them in fleche and als
payes ther dewties with the samen for the maist pairt. Within
this He there is sic faire whyte beir meall made lyke flour, and
quhen they slay their sheip, they flay them belley slaught and
stuiFes ther skins fresche of the beare meill, and send ther
dewties to a servant of Macloyd of Lewis with certain reistit
mutton and maney reistit wyld foulis. Within this He there
is ane Chapell callit St. Ronay'^s Chapell, unto quhilk chapell
as the Ancient of the Countrey alledges, they leave ane spaide
and ane shuill quhen any man deis, and upon the morow Andes
the place of the grave markit with ane spaid, as they alledge.
In this He they use to take maney quhaills and uthers grate
fishes.

SUILSKERAY. 209.

Be sixten myle of sea to this He towards the West, lyes ane
He callit Suilskeray ane myle lange without grasse or hedder, J^.
with highe blacke Craigs, and blacke fouge therupon pairt of
them. This He is full of wyld foulis, and quhen foulis hes ther
birdes, men out of the parochin of Nesse in Lewis use to saiil
ther and to stay ther seven or aught dayes and to fetch hamc
with them their boitt full of dray wild foulis with Wyld foulis
fedders. In this He there haunts ane kynd of foule callit the
Colk, litle less nor a guisse quha comes in in the Ver to the
land to her eggis, and to clecke hir birdes quhill she bring
them to perfytness and at that time her fleiche of fedderis
falleth of her all hailly and she sayies to the mayne sea againe
and then comes never to land quhyll the zeares end againe and
then she comes with her new fleece of fedderis. This fleece that
she leaves zeirly upon her nest, hes na pens in the feddirs nor

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na kynd of hard thinge in them that may felt or graipit, hot
utter fyne downes.

m Descriptio INSULARUM ORCHADIA-
RUM. Anno 1529 per me Joaxnem
Ben, ibidem Colentem.

NORTH RANDLSAY 1.

Prima Insula est North Randlsay ab Aquilone, et est terra
equata mari, et naufragium Anglis et aliis navigantibus siepis-
sime prsebet : distat enim a Kirkvallia sexaginta milliaribus, in
circuitu quatuor : populi fiunt admodum ignari divini eloquii:
quia raro aut nunquam docentur. Fertilitas magna illic
frumenti, nempe hordei atque avenarum homines iiyeme
vescuntur pane hordeaceo, aestate vero pisciculis parvis atque
lacte; in ea parte Insula? nempe aquilone bejluse maximc
vernaculse [Selchis] retis factis ex cannabe capiuntur. Et
distat a terra scopulus magnus dimidium milliare nomine
Selchskerey, ubi marinse aves illic colunt et nidificant. In illo
scopulo belluae predictae fluctuante mari ad cacumen ascendant,
abeunte vero in puteum descidunt, ubi vi nulla egredi possunt,
exitus nuUus est; mutuo inter se murmurantes agricolse moris
venientibus ad scopulum accedunt corylis magnis; belluse
vero intuentes atque frendentes ira cum magna apertura oris
flecti viam tendunt, tunc agrediuntur viribus, et voluntarie
pugnam vexerint. Belluse, etsi prima sine lesione evaserit,
omnes aliae dentibus in homines incidunt; quod autem si
prima caesa et mortua fuerit omnes alise in fugam eunt atque
facile capiuntur, et captas vidi semel sexaginta.

Carent igne, nisi algis marinis siccis, cespites vero arenaceos
349. habent minime in igne lucentes luce vero qua hyeme fruuntur,
ex intestinis piscium est, vel ex abdomine : et ex stercoribus
pecorum in muro sparsis et sole arefactis optimus focus est
Nee ranae, glires, nee bufones hie colunt; et si navis hie
adduxerit glires cito pereunt quasi veneno.

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SANDAY. 2.

Sanday (sic dicta quasi insula arenosa, the Sandk Ile^ quid
est arenarum plena), distat a predicta Insula duo milliaria
maxima: Insula ilia est in longitudine 12 milliaria, lati-
tudine vero duo. Angli et Germani saepissime hie pereunt
in una parte versus orientem, nomine the Star of Lopenesse.

Ipse ego transiensper Insulam,atquefatigatus,meapud unam
Ecclesiam recepi nomine S.Crucis, et in Cemeterio innumerabilia
capita hominum circiter mille vidi majora tribus capitibus nunc
viventibus ; et dentes aliquos ex gingivis extraxi similitudine
unius glandis avellanse. Mirabar quidem atque cupidus rerum
novarum me homini seni contuli investigansque qusenam haec
erant et unde ossa semisepulta, respondit ille, Fili, haec Insula
dim erat subjecta Stronsariis atque etiam annuatim redditum
dedimus ut libere efficeremur, quatenus imbelles suimus. Cum
itaque redditu fatigati adolevimus consilium cepimus quomodo
exonerari potuimus. Tunc unus prudentior aliis dixit: Dies
ecce solutionis adest ; apud Ecclesiam nosmet ipsos absconde-
mus, in Cuniculis trucidabimus omnes ad unum ita ut nuUus
eorum evadet. Omnes illi annuerunt. Veniente vero die
Stronsarii cum uxoribus, filiis, filiabus, famulis, familiaribus
ceterisque multiis, atque solventes anchora, velis extensis aura S60,
secunda, sine armis, elati gaudio, ad littus nostrum appulerunt
ubi saltantes et ducentes Choreas, majorem partem diei con-
sumpserunt. Interea Sandesii et nos hie colentes commoti atque
armis aptissimis succincti subito clamore et sono terribili orto
eos invasimus, et omnes ad mortem trucidavimus, et quidem
nuUus hie unquam postea tributum solvimus et sic liberati
fuimus. Hsec duae Insulse abundant nempe pediculis atque
omnium Insularum luridissinse sunt. Tarn senes quam juvenes
in his duobus Insulis ita pediculosi sunt ut nulla arte mederi
possunt. Cuniculi hie sestate abundanter sunt. Hyeme vero
adeo domabiles sunt ut in domibus capiuntur singulorum.
Homines hie laici habeat calccos ex belluarum pellibus ligulo
contractos vernacule Riflhigs vocatos.

STRONSAY. 3.
Stronsay, vel Sdronsay, sic dicta quasi the Streams lie.

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Ista insula in longitudine est sex milliaria, quatuor vero in
latitudine : Glsebse hie abundantes sunt, atque dimidia pars
hie ineulta est. Quidam hie Deum pure colunt, alii non.
Maxime etiam fidunt napeis (the Fairies) et dieunt homines
subito morientes vitam postea cum illis degere, quanquana ego
non eredo. Preterea monstri marini nomine Troicis sepissime
coeunt cum mulieribus illic eolentibus, quod cum ^o illie colui,
mulier illie erat formosa maritata colono forti ; ipsa vexabatur
spiritu maximo, invito marito, eoncubantibus in uno thoro,
et naturaliter concubuit cum muliere, et videbatur. Mulier
tandem macera facta est prae dolore : hortatus sum ut vacaret
precatione eleemosytia et jejunio quod et fecit; durante anno
S6L siccine turbata est. Descriptio istius monstri haec est. Indutus
est algis marinis, toto corpore, similis est pullo equino convoluto
pilis, membrum habet simile equino et testiculos magnos.

PAPA STRONSAY. 4.

Et distat ab ista Insula alia, quae vocatur Papa Stronsa, que
parva omnino est, et agricola est unus ille colens, et in medio
lacus est incolumis valde. Etymologia {the Little Stronm/).
Altera jactu lapide.

AUSKERRIE. 6.

Est alia insula ineulta, nomine Askerrie, ubi equi ferocis
simi sunt.

SCHAPINSHAW 6.

Schapinshaw dicta {the Shipping lie) Popiili incolentes banc
insulam maxime sunt ignari, colunt napeis et alia nefaria. In
longitudine est sex milliaria, in latitudine duo ; illic curnint
cetera maria ubi patet ingressus ad Kirkwalliam.

ELOERHOLME. 7.

Elocrholme insula nunc ineulta, sed bases domorum et striga
illic apparent, atque etiam sacellum. Causa vastationis atque
desolationis haec sunt. Duo fratres hie incolebant, uuuscultor

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veritatis, alter niinime divinus ; orta contentio inter fratres hie
impius Episcopo enunciavit fratrem suum sponte cum afBin
concubuisse. Audita queria, Episcopus felle commotus, utrunq^
expulit. Decedentibiis uxoribus, flexis genibus Insulam devo-
vebant quamobrem nulltis adhunc diem coluit.

WESTRAY. 8.

Westra quasi dicas Occidentalis Insula (the West Isle) omnium
insularum Orcadiensium fertilissima est, atque illic genera
nobilium colunt; et est excellent issima arx sive castellum, sed ^5;?.
nondum tamen adhuc completa. Olim Agricolse hie habitantes
pugnam ineuntes cum Hybernibus vernacuJe {the Lezdsmefi)^
versiq^ in fugam omnes simul perire. Unus tamen diu pugnabat
pi-aestantior atque robustior aliis intefectis. Caesis tamen pop-
litibus, ad genua coactus est dum in certamine fuerit. In hac
Insula unus est sublimis Mons.

PAPA WESTRAY. 9.

Papa West ray, quasi dicas (the Little West Ile)y subjecta est
priori Insulae, fertilis ut aliae Insulae. Lacus est in hujus Insula
medituUio, et in Lacu Insula in qua capella parvula est.

FARAY. 10.

Faray, quasi dicas pulchra insula (the pleasant Isle), Haec
Insula est maxime commodo Bestiis, precipue vaccis, qua? illic
magna melodia tondant dumeta, et pueri cantant brutis.
Tota Insula est f rumen ti et piscium plena.

EDAY. 11.

Eday insula olim erat omnium Insularum Aquilonarium
ditissima et circiter triginta Coloni illic habitabant, sed expulsi
adveniente vastatore, ut vix unus illic nunc est. Abundantia
illic magna omnium precipue pecorum. Viri seepissimse pugnant
cuoi monstris marinis atque hora peracta desolvunt in fece, et
coquunt in oleo. In ambitu haec Insula continet decem milliaria.

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EGILSCHAY. 12.

S5S. Eglischay, quasi dicas Ecclesise Insularam (the Kirk Ik). In
longitudine est uniim milliare, latitudine autem dimidium.
Ecclesia hie est Sancto Magnodicata; quamplurimi Insulam
banc pretereuntes vitalia lumina perdunt. Gallinae hie quain
plurimo ova deponunt, ita ut doliantur foro. S. Magnus in hac
Insula natus est, et edueatus est ab infantia, et domum dedit
nutriei suae, neinpe unuiii messuagium terra", ubi ilia sacellum
axlificavit, in quo Camerain in solo feeit, atq^ Cunabulum,
mensara, lectuni, et alia necessaria domui ex lapidibus. Postea
vero dirutum. Ubi segetes nunc sunt nihilominus supel
leetilia adhue nianent.

KOWSAY. 13.

Rowsay (|uasi dieas Raulandi insula, magna Insula est, et
maxima ejus pars inculta. In ambitu, base Insula continet
8 milliaria. Montes habet excelsos, et saepissime igne ineensos
videntur, sine hominibus nocte, quod quidem mirabile est.

WEIR. 14.

Weir, Insula est parva Petro apostolo dieata. Ceteris Insulis
obtimbrata ut vix videri potest, habitata eolonis. Hie olim
gigas habitabat procerus, ubi effigies domus adhue manet; alii
dieunt quod haec Insula facta est ex cymba S. Magni dum
fugeret ad Insulam de Eglishay.

ENHALLOW. 15.

Enhallow, quasi dicas Sancta Insula, et minima; fabulantur
hie antiqui quod si metantur segetes, post solis occasum, subito
eruor de calamis frumentoruni manat. Alii dieunt si equus
Hgatus fuerit sole dieedentc facile vagatur undiq^ per noctcm
sine alieujus offendiculo si vero non offendieuluni est niali rei.
Cernere hie posses eoruni fictitias et fabulosas traditiones.

S54, GARSAY. 16.

Garsay Insula habet tres holmas, et in Mouticulum in medio
surgit. Agricolae banc Insulam coluiit acl marinum littus, sed
minorem partem.

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DAMSAY. 17.

Danisay Insula : nullus tumulus hie est, sed placidissima est
omnium, atque Tempo vocatur. Ecclesia est in hac Insula
dedicata Mariw Virgini, ad quam plerunq^ mulieres progre-
diuntur gravidae. Nuuquam Kanae, Buffbnes, nee alia terrestria
mala hie sunt ; Mulieres hie steriles sunt et si gravidas evenerint,
nunquam cum vita pariunt ; fabulantur quod aliquando super-
cilia auferuntur spatium unius horae, deinde vero restituuntur.
Distat ha^c Insula a Kirkwallia duo milliaria.

POMONIA. 18.

Pomonia Insula, alitcr the Mainland^ sic dicta, quasi (the
middle of the Apple, because it lies betwixt the north & south
Isles). Han; insula continet multas parochias, quarum liaec est
prima.

DlKUXESS

Deinies quasi {the Xesse of Deircs) : hac parochia olim erat
naemorosa, et multac ferae hie ftiere; tandem diluviis veni-
entibus, arbores, vulsis radicibus, submersi sunt. In Aquilo-
nan parte istius paroehiae in mari est nativum Saxum ubi
homines manibus et genubus quam difficillime ascendunt ad
cacumen. Illic est sacellum quod nominatur {the Bairties
of burghe). Confluunt hue ex diversis Insulis, homines,
juvenes, pueri, senes, servi innumerabiles. Venti vero, nudis
pedibus, ut prius dixi, orantes ascendunt ubi nullus preterquam 355.
unus ad sacellum uno tempore venire potest: illic est fons
purus et nitidissimus, quod quidem mirabile est : Tune homines
genubus flexis, manibus conjunctis, diffidentes Deum esse, orant
{the Bairties ofBrtighe) his Incantationibus, projicientes lapides
et aquam post tergora, et circa sacellum bis terve gradientes.
Finita Oratione Domuin redeunt afiirmantes se vota habuisse.
Non pure hie colunt Deum.

In Anno 1506, Johannis Steuart, Donensis et Tartensis in
aquilone appulit ad Orchadium, invenitq^ aurifodinam in hac
parochia : tandem implevisset duas naves et saburram aliis par-
asset, et cum operariis in aurifodio esset, Comix alta voce
exelamata est ter; egressi vero Magister cum quibusdam aliis.

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sed ibi quinque relictis con'uit saxum, suffocati sunt; Salvis
caeteris omnibus.

Sancti Anduk.£

Secunda parochiadicitur S. Andreae. Haec parochia est magna
et frumenti ferax. Aliquod memorabile non hie est nisi quod
occidit uno viro nobilissimo nomine Jacobo Sinclero, qui hie
habitabat, et quodam bellum cum Cathanensibus (de quo suo
loeo dieetur) iniit, iste nobilis Dux captus est, demens evasijt,
et seipsum in mare precipitavit, ubi vitam finiit, quod quideni
lamentabile fuit.

Holm et Paplay

Holm et Paplay duse paroehiae sunt eonjunetim ubi de
duabus una Ecelesia est. Transfretantur hie homines profecturi
ad australes partes.

Sancti Olai

Sancti Olai parochia est floridissima et amoenissima. In
S56. medio stat eivitas exeellentissima nomine Kirkwallia ubi
Ecelesia est dicata Sancto Magno quae polonam haberet atq^
retineret in tantum ut labyrintho similari potest : sedes Epis-
copolis in eivitate hie est, nomine (No the Zairdes). Cas-
tellum quondam fabricatum a Sineleris hie est : etiani alia
Ecelesia, in eineres ab Anglis redaeta, nomine Saint Olais kirk
ubi nunc sepeliuntur malefactores. Deditae sunt hie mulieres
luxurifle, sic puto propter piscium abundantium. Hie undiq^
in duabus partibus eivitas est supposita aquis marinis. Hie
mons est ingentissimus ubi tota Pomonia et omnes insulae aspici-
untur, nomine Whisford^ et est judicium belli Orehadibus, cum*
fons in caeumine videtur seaturire. Orehades bellum gerebant
cum Anglis apud civitatem Lotus quidam vocant Paipdelia in
anno 150S, 18 Augusti. In quo bello Angli sunt prostrati et
caesi multiq^ submersi cum eorum Duee, D® Johanne Elder
milite ; Edvardo Sinclero tune Oreailiensium Duee.

FlUTH

Firth alia est parochia, ubi ostrea abunde capiuntur.

Stenhouse

Stenhous alia parochia est, ubi laeus magnus est in eircuitu

Viginti quatuor milliaria ; Illie in montieulo prope laeum in

sepulehro inventa sunt ossa unius viri quae quidem eonjuncta

fuere, et in longitudine erant 14 pedibus, ut author aiebat, et

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moneta illic inventa fuit sub capite illius mortui; et ego quidem
sepiilchrum vidi : illic apud lacum lapides alti latiq^ in altitudine
unius hastse, in pari circuitu dimidii milliaris. In anno 1527,
beliiim ortum est inter Cathenenses et Orcades : Cathenenses A57.
omni vi nitebantur invadere Orcades hastis, telis, sagittis et
sonitibus tubarum. Ponionienses vero, dum hsec gerebantur,
obviarunt illis, atque in moiite istius parochiae apud Bexwell
acies simul junxere. Cathenenses omnes obversi fuerunt et
interfecti, ut iie quidem unus superfuit. Sepuichram Comitis
in eo loco adhuc tnanet ; Avus erat istius Comitis nunc viventis.
Orchades letitia commoti ob victoriam, ad civitatem redierunt
Jacobo Sinclaro, de quo prius loquebar, duce. Campus ubi
hoc bellum pugnatuni est vocatur Symmerdaill.

Orpheh
Orpheraliaparochiaest,bonum portum piscatoribus praebens,

Stuomn'kss
Stromnes alia parochia est, et portum habet salutiferum.
Classi hie exitus optimus. Galli Hispaniq^ hie tempestates
ssepissime evitant ; hie nulli venti naves Isedere possunt. Vocatur
portus hie Cairstane, quia Saxis munita est. Salubres venti hie
flant qui vocantur Etesiae. Periculosissimus hie est pons via-
toribus nominatus {the Bridge of Vaith) ubi plurime pereunt.

Sandwu'k
Sandwick est alia parochia, fertilis valde et abundans cuniculis,
maximaq^ omnium parochiarum est, et culta tota.

BlRZA

Birsa Baronia dicitur, ubi palatium est excellens, ubi olim
regnabat Rex Orchadiae; sed Julio Ca?sare regnante Orbem
totum, vi quadam Rom» deferebatur, et subjecta est Orchadia
Romanis postea, ut Inscriptio unius lapidis testatur. Nomen
Regis fuit Gavus.

Hara

Hara alia parociiia, ubi ignavissimi fuci sunt ideoque
dicuntur (the Sheeps of Haray), Hie est magna Ecclesia
dedicata Sanctae Mariw, vulgus vocat (the Ladey of Grace)
de qua homines multa fabulantur. Hie multi confluimt ex
diversis insulis.

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EVIK

Evie alia parochia, ubi cetse immanes ingrediimtiir. Hie
magna est ii*umentoruni abundantiA.

Uendal
S58, Kendall alia parochia: ista parochia .stihjecta est D<imiiio
Tilliallane ct ipse erat Dominns iibi domiis testatur adhiic.

Longitudo Pomonse (from the Balms of Burgh to the Burgh
ofBh'saij) continet 16 niilliaribus longissimis. Hie viri bellicusi
sunt eirciter quinqiie millia in Ponionia, et totidem in Insulis.
Abundantiam hordei et avenaruni babet, atc^ onines bibaeissimi
sunt hominum et luxuriosi, mutuo inter se pra^liantur : Exempli
gratia, si Vicinis vicinum invitaverit, si invitatus, antequam
decesserit, non vomuerit, litibus niagnis lierum invadit, donee
potus domum eoncesserit : hie mos Insiilariim etiam. Vafri sunt
et subtilissimi. Utuntur idiomate proprio, veluti cum dicimus
Guid day, Guidman, illi dicunt goand da, boundae &^.

INSULiE ab AUSTRALI.

COPINSCHAW, 19.

Copinschaw parva insula est, atcj^ prima est visa navigaiitibus
Orchadise. Unus hie colonus est. Saxum haliet altissimum
versus orientem : ferae volucres hie capiunttir in scopulo diniitt-
endo puerum fune, siccine insideantur.

SOUTH RONALDSAY. 20.

South Ronaldsay alia insula, ubi robustissimi homines hat)i-
tant, habet templum juxta littns marinum, ubi lapis e>t
durissimus, vulgus vocat a gray xchhi^ longitudine sex pedum,
latidudine quatuor, in quo pressura duorum pedum nudorum
insigitur, quani faber nullus quidem fabricari potest. Fabu-
lantur senes quod Gallus quidam patria expidsus, locoque
S69. asyli, iiigressus est navem quandam, ubi subita procella orta,
periclitati% passi sunt naufragiam, ipse tandem tmnsiliens
super tergum belluae constitit suppliciter Deuni orans, quod si
salvus portaretur ad terram, in memoriam, S. Marie Virginis
ecclesiam construeret. Oratione audita, salvus ad littus
appulit, adminiculo belluse. Hellua tandem mutata in lapidem

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ojusdeiii coloris ipse in Ecclesiam collocavit, ubi adhuc manet,
ut supra dixi.

LAMBHOLME. 21.

Lambholme parvissima Insula est sterilis, et inculta, ubi
nuilti cuniculi ab hominibus aliaruni Insularum occiduntur.

FLOTAY. 22.

Flotay, haec insula est aequata mari et amoenissima. Vetus
Domus hie est diruta sola quam quidam ecclesiam, alii
Presbiterium vocant, longitudine magna, ubi singulis annis
comitia agebantur sacerdotum. Ternse trophae hie erectae
sunt, quaae nos Crosses vocamus. A versa sunt fabro murario,
somniante vero fantasmata ea, nocte deinde vexabatur mira-
bilibus. Vigilante vero minus efFectus est et decumbebat
lecto per spatium octo hebdomadum, ut author ipse fuit.
Fodiens vero postea tentorium invenit in tumulo, candelabra,
zonas, et alia mirabilia quae hoc loco recenseri non expedit.

CAVAY. 23.

Cavay quasi the Cheese Ik optimus hie caseus est : parva est
sed commodissima bestiis. Absque arboribus, propter ventoruni
impetum hie flantium : Una domus hie est cum duobu.s
Tuguriis.

FARAY. 24.

Faray, (juasi Clara Insula (the fair Isk\ hujus nominis duae 969^
sunt Insulae, alia est adjacens et vicina Zetlandiae. Haec insula
sterilis est et inculta, sed piscatus nobilis.

SOWNAY. 25.

Sownay est insula fidam prebens stationem navibus peregrinis
et piscatoribus. Avenae et hordeum hie nascuntur; sed terra
est admodum arenosa. Non procul a Kirkness hie est Braga, a
nautis bene nota.

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RYSSA, 26.
Hvssa est insula arcnosa, sterilis et inculta. Hie olim erant
optimae glebae in iota Orchadia.

BURRAY. 27.

Burray, vulgo Biirge Insula, parva, sed liordei fructifera.

WAIS. 28.
VVais, Pomonienses vocant hos homines the Lyam of Wats,
Insula est non magna. Nulla distinctio est inter Hoy et Wais,
sed una Insula est, recedente freto.

HOY. 29.
Hoy, ingentissimus Mons hie est, distat enim a terra in pari
altitudine tribus milliaribus, ubi ascensus non est. Alter est
Mons non admodum adeo altus, inter quos lapis est adniira-
tione dignus, magniis est et excelsus fabrieatus a gigante suacj^
uxore: unus lapis est eameratus in quo lectus est quam artiHciose
factus in la})ide viro et uxore ; tempore Camerationis, femina
^1, gravida fuit, iit lectus testatur. Nam ea pars leeti in qua
uxor eubuit, effigies ventri gravidi est. In lapide pulvinar
factum est duobus seuvialibus ex tumore lapidis, non tanien
materia tenaci aliqua eonjunguntur, sed unus est. Ostium habet
obtrusum lapide, qui hoc fit, nescio. Fabulantur quod alter
gigas in odium ilium habebat, qua propter lapidem fabrieavit
longitudine et latitudine ostii, ut eos ineluderet, et ita fame
peri rent, tandemque ipso dominante insulam, ad suum usum
lapidem haberet & retineret. Detulit tandem lapidem fabri-
catam in summitatem montis, atq^ jaculo imposito sumraa
vi brachiorum (atque dolore alterius prosper! tatis), in ostium
injunxit, gigante incluso evigilante, auribus lupum tenebat,
exire nequiens, suis maleis impluvium fecit per quod egressus
est. Si credere dignum.

In hac Insulae, Betulae crescunt, et non in aliis; nam alise
insulee absque arboribus sunt. Albi iepores hie sunt et
capiuntur canibus. Magnam abundantiam avium habet verna-
cule vocant Lyris, piscium aliarumq^ volucrum. Similiter hie
stmt Aurifodia Plumbifodia, ferrifodia, et quamplurima alia
bona.

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GllAMSAY. 30.

Gramsay est parva Insula, sed culta. Detrimentum magnum
navibus.

SOUTHAY. 31.

Soutliay, quasi the SotUh Isle^ vel australis insula, nunc inculta
est, sed olim fuit fertilissima armentornm. Omnes Iiic pariter
vitam uno die finierunt, fabula non est, sed relatio verissima
et Christianis viris notatu dignissima. Veniente festo no6tri5e«.
Salvatoris Jesu Christi, quum isti habuerunt quoniam
ecclesia illis deficiebat, ad vicinam Insulam proficisci, ingressi
vero in cymba tam juvenes quam senes, subito procella orta,
aquis insanientibus ultra niodum omnes submersi sunt. In qua
vero bestiae, boves, oves, vituli, sues, canes, ciiniculi et omnia
alia illic viventia, mira ferocitate se in mare precipitabant,
obrutiq^ sunt, quod quidem verum fuit; nuUus ad hunc usq^
diem coluit.

The following is a translation into English of
the foregoing Description of the Orkney Islands,
by an unknown translator, under the title —
A Description of the Orkney Islands by Jo.
Ben, living there in the year 1529. Translated
from the Latin Manuscript in Barry's History
of Orkney

Some remarks on this translation are given
in the Introduction. — Ed.

A Description of the ORCADIAN ISLANDS, by me
Jo. Bkn, living there, in the year 1529.

NORTH RONALDSAY. 1.

The first island is North Konaldsa\% from the north, and the land is
level with the sea, and very often causes shipwreck to English and other
navigators : it is distant from Kirkwall sixty miles, in circumference

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four. The people are very ignorant of divine discourse, because they
are seldom or ever taught. There is great abundance of corn there, viz.
of com and oats. The people in the winter live upon barley bread, but
in the summer upon small fish and milk. In that part of the island, viz.
the north, great monsters peculiar to the country (selchis) are taken
with nets made of hemp, and there is a large rock distant from the laud
half a mile, by name Selchskerry, where sea-fowl live and build their
nests. On that rock the monsters before mentioned, when the tide flows,
ascend to the top, but on its ebbing they fall into a well, where by no
force can they get out, there being no exit. Tlie peasantry, mutually
grumbling among themselves at delays coming in the way, draw near to
the rock with large hazel sticks ; but at first the monsters, eyeing them
with dread and gnashing their teeth with rage, strive to get out of the
way with wide-open mouth, then they attack with all their strength, iiud
voluntary carry on the combat. If the first escape without injury, all
the others attack the men with their teeth, but if the first shall fall aud
die, all the others take to flight and are easily captured, and I have seen
sixty taken at one time.

They have no fuel, unless from dried marine plants, but they have
sandy turfs lighting very little in the fire, but in winter they enjoy that
light which is out of the intestines of fishes or out of the abdomen ; and
the best fire is from the dung of cattle spread on the wall and dried in
the sun. Neither frogs, mice, nor toads live here, and if a ship shall
have brought mice here they quickly perish as it were by poison.

SANDAY. 2.

Sanday (so called as if it were the Sand Island, the Sandie Isle^ because
it is full of sand). It is distant from the former island two long miles:
this island is in length twelve miles, and in breadth two. Eng^lish and
Germans very often perish here in one part towards the east^ named
the Star of Lopeness.

I myself, passing through the island, and being fatigued, rested m)'self
at one church called the Holy Cross, and in the burying-ground I saw
innumerable heads of men, about a thousand, larger than three heads
now living, and I extracted some teeth from the gums of the size of a
filbert nut. I was truly surprised, and, desirous of novelties, I dis-
coursed with an old man, and inquiring who these were, and from whence
the half-buried bones, he replied. Son, this island was formerly subject
to the Stronsarians, and we also annually submitted to pay tribute that
we might be free, seeing that we were not suited for war ; when, there-
fore, we increased, being very tired of paying the tribute, we took council
in what manner we could get free.

Then one more prudent said to the others. Behold the day of freedom
is arrived ; we will hide ourselves from them at the church, we will
butcher them all to a man in holes so that not one shall escape : all

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nodded absent to him. When the day was coine^ the Stronsarians with
wives, sons, daughters, servants, and many other friends, weighing
anchor with spread sails and a fnir wind, without arms, elated with joy,
landed on our shore, where they spent the greater part of the day
dancing and singing. In the meantime the Sandesians and we living
here being roused and begirt with the most proper weapons, both by
sudden clamour and raising a terrible sound, attacked them and butchered
them all to death, and indeed none here ever after paid tribute, and thus
we were liberated.

These two islands, it is true, abound in lice, but of all the islands are
the most gloomy.

The old as well as the young in these two islands are so lousy that they
can be cured by no art. Rabbits are abundant here in the summer ;
indeed, in the winter they are so domesticated that they are taken into
the houses of each. Laymen here have their shoes made out of seal-skins,
drawn together with a latchet called in tlie vernacular rifflings.

STRONSAY. 3.

Stronsay, or Sdronsay, so called as if ' the Streams Isle.* This island
is six miles in length and four in breadth : peats are abundant here, and
a half part is uncultivated. Some here worship God purely, others not.
They also greatly believe in fairies (the Fairies), and say men dying
suddenly afterwards live with them, although 1 do not believe it. Troici,
under the name of a marine monster, very often cohabit with women
living here, which, when I lived there, a beautiful woman was there married
to a sturdy farmer; she was tormented with a great spirit, and was seen
against the husband's will lying in one bed, and he cohabiting naturally
with the woman. The woman at length became emaciated from sorrow :
I advised that she might get free by prayer, almsgiving, and fasting, and
which she did ; she was thus troubled during a year. The description of
this monster is this. He was covered with marine plants over the whole
body, he was similar to a young horse covered with hair, he had a
member similar to a horse and large testicles.

PAPA STRONSAY. 4.

And is different from that other island, M-hich is called Papa Stronsay,
which is very small, and there is the same hu^bandman tilling it, and in
the middle there is a lake very shallow. Etjmology (the Little Stron-
say). From the other a stone's throw.

ANSKERRIE. 5.

Is another uncultivated island where the horses are very ferocious.

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SHAPINSHAY. 6.

Shapinshay called (the Shipping Isle). The people iuhabitini^ this
island are very ignorant : they worship fairies and other wicked beings.
In length it is six miles, in breadth two; other seas run in that part
where a passage opens to Kirkwall.

KLOERHOLME. 7.

Elerholme island is now uncultivated, but the foundations and remains
of houses appear there, and also a chapel ; the causes of the devastation
and desolation are these. Two brothers lived here, one a worshipper of
truth, the other very little religious: strife arising between the brothers
the latter impiously informed the bishop that his brother spontaneously
cohabited with a near relation of his wife. Having heard the complaint,
the bishop, moved with gall, expelled both ; departing with their wives,
they cursed the island on bended knees, for which reason none inhabit
it to this day.

WESTRAY. 8.

Westray, as if you said the west island (the West Jsle), is the most
fertile of all the Orkney Islands, and noble families live there ; and there
is a most excellent fort or castle, but not as yet completed. Formerly
the peasantry living here going out to fight with the Hibernians, in the
vernacular (the Lewismen), and being overcome in battle, all perisheil
together. One nevertheless fought for a long time more bravely and
more fiercely after the others M-ere slain ; however, having his hamstrings
cut, he was brought to his knees whilst he was in the contest In this
island there is one high mountain.

PAPA WESTRAY. 9.

Papa Westray, as if you said (the Little West Isle), is subject to the
former island, as fertile as the other islands. There is a lake in the
middle of this island, and an island in the lake on which there is a small
chapel.

FARAY. 10.

Faray, as if you said fair island (the Pleasant Isle). This island h
very convenient for cattle, especially cows, which graze there on the
bushes with great satisfaction, and the boys sing to the cattle. 'Hie
whole island is full of corn and fish.

ED AY. 11.

Kday was formerly the richest of all the northern isles, and about
thirty farmers lived there, but were expelled by the arrival of a spoiler,

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SO that scarcely one is there now. There is great ahundance of every-
thing^ especially of cattle. The men very often fi^ht with sea monsters^
and an hour having passed over they melt into fat dregs and boil into oil.
In circumference this island contaitis ten miles.

EGILSCHAY. 12.

£gil8chay, as if you may say the kirks of the island (the Kirk Isle).
It is one mile in length and half a mile in breadth. The church here is
dedicated to St. Magnus. Many passing here lose their lives. The hens
here lay so many eggs that they are troubled for a market. St. Magnus
was born in this island, and was educated from infancy, and gave a
house to his nurse, viz., one messuage of land, where she built a chapel,
in which she made a vault in the ground, and a couch, table, bed, and
other necessary things for a house out of the stones ; but it was after-
wards destroyed. Nevertheless the household things still remain where
corn fields now are.

RONSAY. 13.

Ronsay, as if you may say the island of Roland, is a large island, and
the greatest part of it is uncultivated. In circumference this island is
eight miles ; it has high mountains, and very often they appear lighted
up with fire, without men, in the night, which indeed is wonderful.

WEIR. 14.

Weir is a small island dedicated to the Apostle Peter. It is so hid by
the other islands that it can scarcely be seen : inhabited by farmers.
Here formerly lived a tall giant, where the form of the house still
remains. Others say that the island was made out of the boat of
St. Magnus when he fied to the island of Egilshay.

ENHALLOW. 15.

Euhallow, as you may say the Holy Island, and the smallest. Here
old people relate that if corn be cut down after sunset, immediately
blood flows from the stalks of the grain ; others say that if a horse be
tied whilst the sun is setting it will easily wander everywhere during the
night, without hindrance from any one, if indeed there be not hindrance
by evil intent. Here you may discern the fictitious and fabulous
traditions of these people.

GAIRZAY. 16.

Gairzay has three holms, and rises into a little mountain in the middle.
Farmers inhabit this island to the sea shore, but the lesser part.

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DAMSAY. 17.

Damsay isUud : there is no rising ground here ; but it is the most
pleasant of all^ and is called Tempe. Tlie church in this island is
dedicated to the Virgin Mary, to which pregnant women oftentimes go
on pilgrimage. Frogs, toads, nor any other noxious terrestrial animals
are ever here ; sterile women are here, and if they shall become pregnant,
they never bring forth with life. They relate that sometimes iJie proud
are carried away for the space of an hour, but then restored. This
island is distant two miles from Kirkwall.

POMONIA. 18.

This island Pomonia, otherwise the Mainland, so called as if it were
(the middle of the apple, because it lies betwixt the north and south
isle«). This island contains many parishes of which this is the first.

DlKUNESS.

Dierness as it were ithe ness of Diers). lliis parish was formerly woody,
and many wild beasts were here ; at length floods coming, the trees
having been torn up by the roots, were submerged. In the northern
part of that parish there is in the sea a natural rock where men ascend
to the top on hands and knees with verv great difficulty. There is a
chapel there which is culled (the Bairns of Burgh). Hither out of various
islands men, youths, boys, old men, innumerable servants flock together ;
but having come, with naked feet, as I formerly said, praying they
ajicend, where none except one can come to the chapel at one
time : there is there a fountain pure and sparkling, which indeed is
wonderful : then the men with bended knees, and clasped hands, dis-
trusting that there is a God supplicate (the Bairns of Burgh) with many
incantations, throwing stones and water behind their backs, and walking
twice or thrice round the chapel. Having finished their prayers they
return home affirming that they have performed their vows. Here they
do not worship God purely.

In the year 1506 Joliu Stewart, Dimensis el Tarttn^is, in the north
came to Orkney, and found a gold mine in this parish ; at length when
he had filled two ships and prepared ballast for others, and when he was
with workmen in the mine, a raven exclaimed aloud three times; indeed
the master went out with some others, but five being left there the stone
fell, and they were suffocated ; all the others being saved.

Saxcti Axure.e.

The second parish is called St. Andrews, lliis parish is large and
fertile in corn. There is nothing memorable here unless what happened
to a very noble person, named James Sinclair, who dwelt there, and
when a war began with the Caithness men (of which it will be spoken in

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its proper place) that xioble leader was taken captive^ niadnegs seiased
him^ and he precipitated himself into the sea, wliere he ended his life,
which indeed was lamentable.

Holm and Paplay.

Holm and Paplay are two parishes joined together, where there is
one church for the two. Here men when about to set out for southern
parts are ferried over.

St. Olas.

i»t Olas is the most flowery and delightful parish. In the middle
stands that most excellent city named Kirkwall, where there is a church
dedicated to St. Magnus, qua polonam haberet atque retineret in tanlnm
ut labyrintho nimUari potent (sic) : the seat of the bishop is here in the
city, by name (no the Yards). Formerly a castle was built here by the
Sinclairs : there is also another church here, reduced to ashes by the
English, named St. Olas's Kirk, where criminals are now buried. Women
here are given to excess in carnal pleasures, 1 think thus so on account
of the abundance of fish. Here on every side in both parts the city is
exposed to the sea. Here there is a very high mountain where the
w^hole of Pomonia and all the islands may be seen, named Wishford ; and
it is a judgment of war to the Orcadians when a fountain on the top is
seen to run over. The Orcadians carried on war with the English at
the city Lotus, which they call Papdale, in the year 1502, ISth of
August. In which Mur the Etiglisli were defeated and many slain and
drowned with their leader. Lord John Elder, a soldier, the leader of the
Orcadians being then ISdward Sinclair.

FlllTH.
Firth is another parish where oysters are taken abundantly.

Stenhouse.

Stenhouse is another parish, where there is a large lake twenty-
four miles in circumference. There, on a little hill near the lake in a
sepulchre were found the bones of a man, which indeed were connected
together, and were fourteen feet in length, as the author said, and money
was found under the head of the dead man in that place ; and I indeed
saw the sepulchre. There at the lake are stones high and broad to the
height of a spear, in an equal circle of half a mile. In the year 1527
war arose between the Caithnessmen and the Orcadians : the Caith-
nessians strove with all their force to invade Orkney with spears, darts,
arrows, and the sound of trumpets. But the Pomonians, whilst these
things were going on, were making opposition to them, and on a moun-

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tain in that parish at Bex well the armies joined battle; all the Caith-
nessiaus were routed and slain^ so that not one indeed survived. The
grave of an earl yet remains in this place ; he was ancestor to that earl
now living. The Orcadians, elated with joy on nccount of the victory,
returned to the city with James Sinclair their leader, of whom it has
been previously mentioned. The field where the battle was fought vas
called Symmerdale.

Orpher.
Orpher is another parish affording a good harbour for fishermen.

Stuomness.

Stromness is another parish, and has a safe harbour ; here is the best
exit for a fleet. The French and Spaniards very often avoid tempests
here. Here no winds can hurt ships. Here is a harbour called Cair-
stane, because it is made safe with stones. Salutary winds blow here.,
which are called Etesian. Here there is a most dangerous bridge for
travellers, named (the Bridge of Naith) where many perish.

Sandwick.

Sand wick is another parish, very fertile and abounding with rabbits ;
it is the largest of all the parishes, and wholly cultivated.

BiRZA.

Birza is called a barony, where there is an excellent palace, where
formerly the Kings of Orkney reigned, hut Julius Caesar governing the
whole world, by some power it was conveyed to Rome, and Orkney was
afterwards subject to the Romans, as the inscription of a stone testifies.
The name of the king was Gavus.

Hara.

Hara is another parish where there are very lazy drones, and therefore
called (the Sheeps of Haray). Here there is a large church dedicated to
St. Mary commonly called (the Lady of Grace), of whom men narrate
many fables. Here many flock together from the different islands.

EviK.

Evie is another parish where whales enter in. Here there is a great
abundance of corn.

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• Rendal.

Rendal is another parish. This parish was subject to Lord Tulliallan,
and he was lord where the house still bears witness.

The length of Pomonia (from the Bairns of Burgh to the Burgh of
Birzay) contains sixteen very long. The warlike men in Pomonia number
about five thousand, and just the same in the islands. It has abundance
of barley and oats ; all the men are very drunken and luxurious and
mutually fight together. For the sake of example if a neighbour have
invited another neighbour, if, being invited, before he hath departed he hath
not vomited, he assails the host with great disputes until the drunkard
hath departed the house. This is also the custom of the islands. They
are cunning and very subtile. They use a peculiar idiomatic expression,
as when we say Guid day, Guidman, they say goand da, boundfe, etc.

COPINSHAW. 19.

Copinshaw is a small island, and is first seen by sailors to Orkney.
Here is one husbandman. It has a very high stone towards the east ;
winged fowl are taken here on a high rock by sending down a boy by a
rope, thus they can be ensnared.

SOUTH RONALDSAY. 20.

South Ronaldsay is another island where very strong men live. It
has a temple near the sea shore where there is a very hard stone com-
monly called a gray whin, six feet in length, four in breadth, on which
the pressure of two naked feet is fixed, which no workman indeed is
able to make. Old men narrate that a certain Gaul, being expelled the
country, and for a place of safety went on board some ship, when a great
tempest suddenly arose, they were exposed to danger, and suffered ship-
wreck, he at length jumping upon the back of a monster, vowed, humbly
praying God, that if he should be carried a safe man to land, in memory
thereof he would build a church to the Virgin Mary. The prayer being
heard, he was drawn a safe man to shore, by the assistance of the
monster. At length the monster being changed into a stone of its own
colour, he himself placed it in that church, where it still remains, as I
said above.

LAMBHOLME. 21.

Lambholme is a very small sterile island, and uncultivated, where
many rabbits are killed by men of other islands.

FLOTAY. 22.

Flotay, this island is level with the sea and very pleasant There was
an old house here, wholly pulled down, which some call a church, others

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a pre8b3rt6r7^ of great length, where the assemblies of the priesthood
transacted business each year. Three trophies are here erected, which
we call crosses. They were taken away by the workman who built the
wall, but he, dreaming those phantasies, was afterwards in the night-
time troubled with wonderful visions, but when awake he was less
troubled, and lay on his bed for the space of eight weeks, as he himself
told ; but digging he afterwards found a tent in a tumulus, candle-
sticks, girdles, and other wonderful things which it is not expedient to
mention in this place.

CAVAY. 23.

Cavay, as if it were (the Cheese Island), the best cheese is here ; it is
small but very convenient for cattle ; without trees, on account of the
force of the wind blowing here. Tliere is one house here with two
cottages.

FARAY. 24.

Faray, as if it were the Fair Island (the Fair Isle), there are two
islands of this name, the other is adjacent to it and in the neighbourhood
of Zetland. This island is sterile and uncultivated, but there is noble
fishing.

SOWNAY. 25.

Sownay is an island affording a secure roadstead to foreign ships and
fishermen. Oats and barley are produced here. But the land is very
sandy. Here, not far from Kirkness, is Braga, well known to sailors.

RYSSAY. 26.

Ryssay is a sandy island, sterile, and uncultivated. The best peats in
all Orkney were formerly here.

HURRAY. 27.

Burray, commonly the Burge Island, is small, but bearing barley.

WATS. 28.

Wais — the inhabitants of Pomonia call the inhabitants the Lyarz of
Wais — the island is not large. There is no distinction between Hoy
and Wais, but it is one island froqi the firth receding.

HOy. 29.

Hoy, there is a very large mountain here, for it is distant frem the
land in equal altitude, tliree miles^ where there is no ascent, lliere i9

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another mountain^ not so very high^ between which there is a stone
worthy admiration^ it is large and high being made by a giant and his
wife ; one stone is hollowed out, in which there is a bed very artfully
made in the stone for the man and wife ; at the time of hollowing out
the stone the woman was pregnant^ as the bed testifies^ for that part of
the stone in which the wife lay has a likeness of a pregnant belly* In
the stone a pillow was made with two hollows out of the rising of the
stone, nevertheless they are not joined by any tenacious matter, but it
is one. It has the mouth shut forcibly by a stone ; who made this^ I
know not They tell a story that another giant had a hatred to this one,
on which account he made a stone the length and breadth of the mouth
that he might shut them up, and so that they might perish with hunger,
and at last he himself ruling the island might have a^d retain the stone
for his own use. At length he carried the prepared stone to the summit
of the mountain and placing it as a dart by the great strength of his arms
{and envy at the other's prosperity) joined it upon the month, the shut
up giant watching attentively was every way in danger ;^ being unable to.
escape he made a gutter with his hammer through which he escaped — if
worthy credit.

In this island birch-trees grow, and not in the others, for the other
islands are without trees. White hares are here and are taken with
•dogs. It has abundance of birds, called in the vernacular lyris, of fishes,
and of other winged fowl. Here likewise are gold mines^ lead mines^
iron mines^ and many other good things.

GRAMSAY. 80.

Gramsay is a small island, but cultivated ; it is a great detriment to
ships.

SOUTHAY. 31.

Southay, as if it were, the South Isle, or southern island, is now un-
cultivated, but formerly it was very rich in cattle. Every one here
finished their life in one day in the same manner— this is no story^ but
a very true relation, and worthy to be noted by Christian men. At the
approach of the festival of our Saviour Jesus Christ, when they held it
since the church was insufficent for them, they went to a neighbouring
island, and proceeding in a boat, both young and old, a sudden storm
having arisen, whilst the waters were raging beyond measure they were
drowned. Whereupon indeed the cattle, oxen, sheep^ calf, pigs^ dogs^
puppies, and every living thing there precipitated themselves into the
sea with wonderful ferocity, and were drowned, which indeed was true ;
no one has lived there to this day.

> Terence uses the phrase 'auribus lupum tenere,* to be every way in danger.

324 ORCADIAN HUSBANDRY

Of the Husbandrie used by the Orchadians.

They teill not till the spring of the yeir, and as they teill,
so they saw ther aittes. ther pleuche is drawen by foure beastis
going side for side : the Caller gangis befor the beastis back-
ward with a whipe : the balder of the pleuche lyes on with
his side on the Pleuche : the culter and the socke be not twa
pound in waight. The oxin be zokid with cheattis and heamis
and brachimis, quilk they call Weasies, albeit they have homis :
They saw in a Creill made of stra, called ane Cassie, and of ane
handfull they make four casts.

Ther horses leive on beare calfe and grow exceiding fatt
on the same. They be verey litle, bot quick and fierie.
S6S, Men heir keipe the observations of the Moon, in sa far that
they sla ther martes, at the vaxin therof affirming they grow
in the barrell.

Ther Calfes nevir soukis ther mother. Ther comes are very
guidy to wit, beare and aittis. All handled by men, the women
nather [shake] the stra, nor zet winowes the corne. They guid
ther land with sea Ware, and lightlie midden mucke.

Finis.

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INDEX 826

INDEX of the present COLLECTION of
PAPERS and Informations.'

1. Short relation of the most considerable things in Orkney 1.

2. Fragment of a Letter wri tten by M' Mattheu Maekaille 8.

3. Honours and privileges of High Constable of Scot-

land. 8

4. Current of the Tides about the Orcades. 11.

5. Extract of a Letter written by the said M' Matheu

Maekaille ^ IS.

6. Extract of a Letter written by the same hand from

Caithness. 13.

7 relation of the dropping Cave at Slanes. 14.

8 relation anent a Lead-mine in Fife. 15.
9. Carmina de Insigniis Comitis Errollii Magni Con-

stabularii 15.

10. Carmina de Insigniis Comitis Mariscalli. 16.

11. Extract of a Letter written by Doctor Miln. 17.

12. Account of Metals and Minerals in Scotland. 17.

13. Extract of several Letters of Sir Geo. Mackenzie &

M*" Ja : Gregory. 19.

14. Some hints for the Horticulture of Scotland. 21.

15. Observations made in Scotland by Sir Geo. Mackenzie 23.

16. Extract of a letter concerning a man of an Imitating

nature. 25.

17. Manner of making malt in Scotland. 26.

18. Account of the Isles of Hirta and Rona. 29.

19. Account of Mines & Minerals in Scotland by M'

Atkinson. 30.

20. Memorandum of the Minerals in Scotland by Coll :

Borthwick 57.

21. Another Memorandum by the same hand. 58.

22. Account of Sutherland and the Earles thereof. 60.

23. Description of the Island of Shetland, & the fishing

thereabout. 63.

24 Description of the burgh of Hadingtoun 68

^ The figures on the right-hand side of the page in this Index represent pages
of the manuscript as shown in the margins. — Ed.

826 INDEX

25 Proportion of Excise in several Shires and Burghs. 71.

26. Account of the Law and Government of Scotland. 74.

27. Of Jurisdiction and Judges in general. 75.

28. Of the Supreme Judges and Courts of Scotland. 78.

29. Of Inferiour Jurisdictions and Courts. 81.
SO. Of Ecclesiastick Persons. 8S.
81 Answers to the Queries concerning Caithness. 87.
82. Survey of the Town of Aberdeen. 92.
S3 Relation of a strange Cure of mad people at the well

ofStouthill. 97.
34. Citations concerning the Scots out of Roman Authors. 97.

35 Provost Euarts account anent Galloway. 98.

36 Some Curiosities of nature. 98.

37. Lord Newbaiths Relation anent Corstorphin, &^ 99.

38. Carta Roberti Regis de baronia de Menar. 100.

39. Description of Southerland with its Commodities. 101.

40. Description of Strathnaver. 115.

41. Description of East Lothian. 117.
42 Description of Mid Lothian. 122.

43. Description of West Lothian, abest caret

44. Relations of Grahames Dikes with its forts and forti-

fications. 132.

45. Description of the Shireffdom of Renfrew. 133.

46. Description of the Shireffdom of Wigtoun. 135.

47. Description of Murray. 138.

48. Description of the Shirrifdom of Lanerick. 140.

49. Description of the Sheriffdom of Roxburgh. 145.

50. Description of the Sherifdom of Selkirk. 149.

51. Description of Tweddale. 152.

52. Houses upon Lyne Water 158.

53. Houses upon Tairth Water, Meddin Water, Manner

Water. 163.

64. Houses upon Atleston Water, Bigger Water. 164.

55. Houses upon Broughten Bum, Holms Water. 165.

56. Houses upon Meggit Water, Tweed, Frood Water. 166.

57. Description of the Parishes of the Presbytery of

Peebles. 16a

58. Information concerning the Shire of Roxburgh 170.
69. Abbacies, Monasteries, & other Religious Houses. 172.

INDEX 827

60. What Shires had Provincial Lords As gave Titles of

Honour. 178.

61. The great Command and Power of the Warden. 174.

62. The Wardenries of Scotland three. 174.
68. Free Burghs, Burghs of Barony and Regalities. 175.

64. Families in this Shire nobilitated in the days of

K. James 6th. 176.

65. Doctor Cranstouns Relation of Roxburghshire. 177.

66. Considerable Gentry in Teviotdale. 177.

67. Old Inscription in the Abbacy of Melros. 178.

68. Description of the Shirifdom of Selkirk. 178.

69. Tweeds Course, Whence Tweed, Clide and Annand

have their rise. 179.

70. Gentlemans Houses on the Southside of Tweed As .

betwix Gala & Tweed. 179.

71. Yaro and Etrick their rise and course. 180.
7S. Villages and Houses upon the north As southside of

Yaro. 181.

73. Houses upon the north and south side of Etrick. 182.

74. Ale Water with the Houses thereon. 188.

75. Steeds upon the Water of Borthwick. Manners of

Inhabitants. 184.

76 This Shire why called the Forrest. 184.

77. A Description of Berwickshire. Tweed, its Course

& bridges. 186.

78. Its Division into S parts, Lauderdale, Lamermoor

and Mers. 186.

79. The length and breadth of the Shire. The March

of the Mers. 188.

80. Judicatories of this Shire, Religious Houses, Pres-

byteries. 189.

81. Waters. Leider Water, Mylns upon Leider. 190.

82. Parishes, Houses upon Leider Water. 191.

83. Parishes, Houses upon Eden Water. 193.

84. Parishes, Houses and Villages upon Lette Water. 195.

85. Parishes, Houses upon Blacater Water. 196.

86. Continuation of the description of Berwickshire. 198.

87. Langtoun House, and Parish. Duns Parish and

Dunslaw. 198.

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88. Parishes and Houses upon Whitteter Water. 199.

89. Parishes and Houses upon Ey Water. 801.

90. Mills, Woods, Fishings, Hills, Length & Breadth of

the shire. 808.

91. Most considerable Names. Families decayed. Build-

ings, Bridges. 303.

93. Account of the Curiosities at Drumfreis by D'

Archbald. 304.
93* Continuation of said Account, namely of salt

making. 807.

94. Manner of catching the Chucks a fish. 809.
96. Fowls, Quadrupeds, Insects. 810.

96. Fossiles, Wells. 811.

97. Serpents. 818.

98. Further account of Galloway by D' Archibald. Sea

fishes there. 813.

99. Fresh Water fishes there. 814.

100. A Brief description of the bounds of the Presby-

tery of Penpont. 815.

101. Nith River, its fountain and course. 815.
108. Nidesdale & Annandale joyn in Election for Pari.

but separate Jurisdict: 816.

103. The 4 Presbyteries of Nidesdale & Annandale in

Glasgow Diocese 816-

104. Militia of Nidesdale & Annandale. 816.
106. Kirkconnall Parish, its denomination, how bounded. 817.

106. Sanquhar Parish how bounded, Sanquhar Town &^ 818.

107. A Mistake between two Troups of Oliver, Anno

1653. 819.

108. Kirkbride Parish how bounded. 880.

109. Dursdeer Parish how bounded. 881.

110. Penpont Parish how bounded. 888.

111. Tinron Parish how bounded. 884.
118. Glencame Parish how bounded. 885.

113. Eairn Water, its fountain and course. 886.

114. What happened near the Castle of Glencame in the

Year 1651. 887.

115. Kire Parish how bounded. Loch of Kilbi'ead. 888.

116. Morton Parish how bounded. 889.

INDEX 329

117. The united Parishes of Dalgarno and Closburn how

bounded. 230.

118. Closburn Parish. 230.

119. Closbum's ancient Charter of his Lands. His

Arms. 231.

120. Loch Atrick. The upper Wai-d of Nithsdale. 232.

121. Description of Renfrewshire. Nature of Soil.

Herring fishing. 232.

122. Pearies, Forrests and Woods. 234.

123. Inclosures and Parks. Springs, Rivers. White Cart. 235.

124. Black Cart, Griff, Strath Griff, Lochquhinnoch. 236.

125. Roads, Bays, and Ports, Port Glasgow. 237.

126. A Roman tamp at Paslay. 239.

127. Queen Blear-eye's Cross betwixt Paslay and Ranfrew. 240.

128. Parish Churches in this Shire. Abbacy of Paslay. 241.

129. Noble Families here. 243.

130. Description of the Burgh and Priory of Pettinweem. 244.

131. Description of Stormont, Gourie, adjoyning parts

of Angus. 248.

132. Account of Buchan. 250.

133. A remarkable thing of the Moss trees in Buclian. 251.
134 Abbacy of Deer. Second son of E. Marschal, Lord

Commendator. 253.

136 Peterhead, Fraserburgh, Ellon, Old Dear, Turreff. 254.
136 Fovery over grown with sand. Bullers of Buchan,

Pitsligo. 256.

137. Description of Peterhead. 255.

138. Town of Peterhead, or Peter Eugy 70 Leagues dis-

tant from Norway. 256.

139. Medicinal Well, Keyth Inch. 256.

140. Port Henry, Saltcote hive, Fishings, Character of

Inhabitants. 257.

141. HealthfuU Air, Advantages to Sailors on the Coast. 268.

142. Discription of Dunotir, Church of S* Brigid, Strath-

more. 259.

143. Loch Lumger, Castle of Dunotir. 259.

144. Explanation of the word Dunotir, particular dis-

cription thereof. 260.
146. The same continued 261, 262.

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146. Fowls that frequent these Rocks 263.

147. Stonehive. 264.

148 A note of some remarkable things within the Sheriff-
dom of the Merns by M' John Keyth Minis' at
Dunotir. 264.

149. Burgh of Cowy, Castle there built by Malcolm

Canmore. 265.

160. of Will™ Rait of Redcloak, his House, Invasion of

the Danes. 266

151. Danish and Scots Camps at Urie, Loch Redcloak

its Quality. 266.

152 Cowy and the two Causeys to Aberdeen. 267,

153 M' Geo. Wishart Martyr bom at Pittaro & Walter

Miln at the Miln of Garvock. 268.

154 Black Stone of Dunotir, Stone brought from

Adrian's Wall. 268.

155 Inscription on the Stone from Adrian's Wall,

Bervy. 269.

156. Ancient Families in Merns. 270.

157. Description of Strathspey. 270,

158. Rothemurcus, the Shaws their Chief, great Fir wood 27L

159. Laird of Grant marries L^ Alexander Cuming'^s heir

& gets the Estate 271.

160. Kirk of Duthell, remark on the Kirk doors, Castle

of Muckrath. 272.

161. Cumine's Lady beseiged in her Castle by Rob.

Bruce. 273.

162. Kinchardin possessed by the Stewai*ts by K. Rob.

Bruce's Charter. 273.

163. Fir Wood, Hill of Kaime Gorum, Gold found here,

a Spirit said to frequent Glen-moire with a red
hand &°. 278.

164. Inver Ellon, Abernethie, Cromdall & Castle of

Bellindalloch. 274.

165. Inver-aven the Chancelour's Seat of Muray, parish

of Knockando. 275

166. Information anent the Shire of Forfar by Oucter-

lony of Guinde with addita aut mutata p. D.
Sibbaldium manu ipsius scripta. 276.

INDEX S31

167. General Geographical Discriptiou of Zetland. S80.

168. It's Length and Breadth. 280.

169. Fair Isle where the D. of Modena^s Ship was lost

1588. 281.

170. Isle of Fowlaye where a promontory & Hole never

yet sounded. 281.

171. Manners & Customs of the different Classes. 281 & 282

172. Their Animals, Fishes, Fowls, Corn lands, no

Woods. 282 & 283.

173. Copper Mines supposed here, Standing Stones why

erected. 284.

174. Mariners Compass varies to the South at Schall-

dister &« 284.

175. Castles of Scalloway & Moraness. 284.
177^ Pyramidall Towers with valted Cells & Stairs built

by the Picts, whereon Fires were kindled on the
approach of Invaders, the same on Hill tops. 285.

178. Fish in Abundance, excellent Brissmacks, Lump or

Tusk Fish. 285.

179. Good Bays & Roads, product of the Countrey. 286.

180. Government civil & ecclesiastic 286 & 287.

181. Broken Cross in Revel Church in Annandale. 288.

182. Two Latin Monuments in the College of Glasgow

by Orbeston. 289.

183. Preuve de TEcosse Francoise, et alliance des deux

Royaulme. 289.

184 Geneologies of the chieffe Clans of the Isles collected

by Sir Donald Monro heigh Deane of the Isles. 294.

185. Description of the Western Isles of Scotland called

Hybrides composed by M' Donald Monro deane
ofthe Isles 1549. 297.

186. Descriptio Insularum Orchadiarum An. 1529, per

Joan Ben ibid colentem 348.

187. Ofthe Husbandrie used by the Orchadians. 362.

* No. 176 awanting in manuscript.

GENERAL INDEX

Abbay Craig, i. 136.
Abbotrule, Hi. 162.
Abbotsgrange, i. 320.
Abbotshall, ii. 238, 239.
Abbotshaugh, i. 320, 321, 324.
Abbyr, ii. Soi, 602.
Abbytown bridge, i. 329.
Abdie, i. 303, 304.
Aberarder, i. 225 ; ii. 599.
Aberarge, L 116.
Aberbothrie, i. iii.
Aberbrothock. Su Arbroath.
Abercaimy (Ebbercarnie), i. 139; ii.

319.
Aberchaladar, i. 219, 225 ; ii. 559.
Abercherdor, i. 87, 242 ; ii. 239, 256.
Abercorne, ii. 196, 314, 346, 356, 368.

earl of, ii. 194, 204, 206.

Abercromby, Alex., of Tilibody, i.

309-

sir James, i. 73.

— Mr., minister at Minibole, ii. xxiv,
xxvi ; his description of Carrick, i.

of Glassah, i. 73.

of Sheiih, i. 73.

Abercrombyes of Birkenbog, ii. 234.

Aberdalgie, i. 124.

Aberdeen, i. 108; ii. 245-249, 251,
2S9> 263, 266, 322, 360, 416, 509 ;
Skene's survey of the town of, iii.
87 ; epigrams on the town by Arthur
Johnston, xx, 91 ; castle, ii. 478, 479,
485 ; city arms, 484 ; almshouses,
481, 487 ; churches, 479» 480, 489;
college of Dominicans, 481 ; gram-
mar school, 481, 488 ; description of
both towns by J. G., 469 ; university,
245.477.485.488.

Aberdeenshire, description of, ii. 250 ;
notes for a description of, 224.

Aberdour (Buchan), i. 41, 47, 48, 50,
S3, 60 ; iii. 227.

(Fife), i. 290, 302.

Aberfoyle, i. 33J, 340, 342, 344. 347-

Abergeldie castle (Aberzildie), ii. 241,
260.

Aberlady, iii ill, 114; description of
the parish by Dickson, i. 374.

Aberlemnay, i. 274, 276; ii. 25, 27,
49 ; iii. 2415.

Aberlour, i. 87, 230, 245, 246.
I Aberluthnet or Mary parish, i. 262,
I 263, 266, 268, 269, 270, 274.

Abernethy, i. 126, 127, 294, 297, 298,
I 304; ii. 402, 406, 595; Taylor's
description of the parish, i. 115.

I in Strathspey, i. 573 ; iii. 243.

! Abernethy of Mayen, i. 174.

David, principal of Montpelier

college, iii. 259.

William, minister of Thurso, i.

174.

Abernyle, i. 141.

Abertarf, L 218, 220, 227 ; ii. 170-172,

I _524. 525. 556, 573.
Aberuthven, i. 118, 137.
Abirardourbeg, ii. 557.
Abirardourmoir, ii. 557.
Abir Esky, ii. 557.
Abirscors, ii. 420 441 ; iii. 105.
Abirskaig, ii. 538.

Aboyne, 1. 28, 32, loi, 105 ; ii. 243,
261 ; castle, i. lOi, 105.

earl of, i. 106, 107.

Charles, earl of, i. 105.

James, earl of, ii. 472.

Ach. See also Auch.
Achachalladyr, ii. 536, 570.
Achachame, il 535, 541- 543*

Meanach, ii. 541.

Achacham-Ocrach, ii. 541.
Achacharn Rogan, ii. 541.
Achacharrich, li. 545.
Achachoumy, ii. 550.
Achachowrin, ii. 541.
Achachroisk, ii. 553, 555.
Achachrok, ii. 553.
Achachuil or Achachyl, ii. 548, 567.
Achacroy, ii. J39.
Achadreynie, li. 541.
Achadron, ii. 169 and », 171, 523.
Achaduncriack, ii. 613.
Achaessen, ii. 535.
Achaglen, ii. 539, 542, 543.
Achaglenie, ii. 539.
Achaiawick, ii. 012.

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GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Achaleshy, n. 612.

Achalig, ii. 609.

Achalunachan, ii. 541.

Achalusk, ii. 539.

Achamoir, ii. 535, 609.

Achanacand, ii. 539.

Achanachy, ii. 233.

Achanacie, i. 90.

Achanagonnyr, ii. 549.

Achanaeowen, ii. 546.

Achanahannat, ii. 170, 524.

Achanahoglis, ii. 545.

Achanasilt, ii. 611.

Achanatraneg, ii. 582.

Achanaturig, ii. 534.

Achanpaill, i. 179.

Achanich-galdan, ii. 535.

Achans. Sei Auchans,

Achantuyn, ii. 334.

Achanty, ii. 545.

Acharioch, ii. 5^.

Achatiskaillie, ii. 541.

Achatrei^, ii. 610.

Achavanie, ii. J48.

Achcaillnaborpin, i. 188.

Achenbowie, 1. 332.

Achglownachan, ii. 541.

Achignigliun, iii. 19.

Achinabrick, i. 242.

Achinachene, ii. 539,

Achinahowach, ii. 569.

Achinames, ii. ao6.

Achinbaidy, i. 77, 245.

Achinbetly, ii. 209.

Achinbot, ii. 209.

Achinbrek, laird of, ii. 149, 513.

Achincloich, ii. 519.

Achincoul, ii. 539.

Achincrae, ii. 587.

Achindevy, ii. 368.

Achindraiji, ii. 8, 10, 19, 585, 606.

AchinduUie, i. 395* .

Achinhervy, ii. 591 •

Achinhove, i. 98.

Achinkick, ii. 200.

Achinlett, James, minister of Kettins,

i. 281.
Achiiinabat, ii. 557.
Achinnacloick, ii. 542.
Achinnadarroch, ii. 542.
Achinnagarin, ii. 549.
Achinreath, i. 242.
Achinsoul, ii. I4» I9«
Achintaembrack, ii. 550.
Achinterea, ii. 55^.
Achintorly, ii. 196.
Achintoshan, ii. 200.
Achintoul, ii. 543.
Achintroig, i. 348-, ii. 610.

Achinvoyl, ii. 578.

Achin Wind, ii. 19.

Achirie. See Aucheres.

Achlessie, i. 338.

Acfamacre, ii. 543.

Achmannoch, ii. 589.

Achmul, i. 265.

Achnagart, ii. 238, 569.

Achnagowen, ii. 560.

AchnaguUan, ii. 568.

Acbnarra, iii. 274.

Achnatrad, ii. 538.

Achness, i. 203.

Achniven, i. 349.

Achrai, ii. 567.

Achterminnie, ii. 368.

Achuchuil, i. 188.

Achufary, i. 198.

Achughrisgill, i. 196, 199.

Achulanes, i. 196, 199.

Achunaburin, i. 188.

Acbunab, i. 188.

Achuneiscich, i. 188.

Achuness, i. 188.

Achuntraan, u 190.

Achuridieill, i. 182.

Achwood, iii. 96.

Ach^nachy, i. 89, 90.

Adain isle, iii. 293.

Adair of Kilhilt,ii. 98.

Adamson, William, minister of Olrigg,

L 175.
Adamsion, i. 86, 409, 410.
Addiewell, ii. 616.
Adiall, i. 60.
Adingston, iii. 175.
Adischyll, ii. ^6J.
Adrian, St., iii. 218, 22a
Adrian's wall, ii. xxxix, 314 and m,

J 136, 345» 3S6, 3^. 3^-
vi, iiL 243.
iEchalyn, ii. 535.
iCdiff river, ii. 153, 515.
Aen river, ii. 555.
Aerskine. See Erskine.
Aeschnaclachdien, ii. 613.
Afarig, ii. 539. 55a. 553.
Affleck, i. 61 ; ii. 588 ; iii. 197.
Afirance, ii. 566.
Afuill, iii. 295.
Agely, ii. 550.
Agnew of Sheuchan, ii. 94.

sir Andrew, ii. 81, 92, 94, 98;

iii. 127.

William, of Wigg, ii. 84.

Agrimony, ii. 74.
Abengashall, iii. 203.

' Ahenkaim, iii. 2ta
I Ahenleck, iii. 209.

GENERAL INDEX

385

Aidan, bishop, ii. 316.

•Aikenhe&d bridge, i. 418.

Aikenxkoor loch, iii. 140.

Aikie fair, iii. 226.

Aikiehill, i. 66.

Aikinwav, i. 23a

Aikwood, iii. 139, 140.

Ailsa (Elsay), ii. 3, 587, 59^ ; iii. 263.

Ainrik river, ii. 581, 609.

Aird or Airds, i. 73 ; ii. 128, 539, 549.

Airdoch, i. 73 ; ii. 198, 556, 609,

Airdrie, iiL 134.

Airdsheugh, ii. 58, 115.

Air^aik nver, ii. 160, 170, 519, 524.

Aingill castle, i. 159.

Airly, i. 109, 112, 277 ; ii. 37-

earl of, i. 76, IIQ, 112, 281 $ ii.

21, 22, 29, 36, 37, SO ; iii. 223.
Aimbath, i. 73, 74.
Airtfeild, iii. 128.
Airth, i. 325-329. 334-
Airthnrly, ii. 209.
Aishie bum, ii. 588.
Aithray, ii. 613 n ; iiL 16.
Akergale, L 158.
Akergill castle, ii. 423 ; iii. 86.
Alabuter, iii. 51.
Alachynachan, i. 246.
Ala^, thane of Sutherland, iii. 57.
Alarick, i. 26.

Albemarle, George, duke of, ii. 479.
Albie, i. 372.
Album, Thomas, i. 30a
Alcluith. See. Dunbritton.
Aldagob river, ii. 562.
Aldan, i« 193.
Aldanabreiic, ii. 567.
Aid bum, ii. 609.
Aid Chailteny, ii. 571.
Aide castle, iii. 295.
Aldearmheally, i. 198.
Aldene-Gealcigh, iii. 106.
Alden-Leacan, ii. 612.
Alderstone, ii. 615,616; iii. 114, 117,

137.
Aldimhutin, i. 187.
Aldi-Nalbanagh, iii. 97.
Aldi-ne-Geale-Gigh. See Aldnegalgus.
Aldinzmy, L 198.
Aid Kihaog, ii. 557.
Aid Knalbenod), ii. 585.
Aldmillan-choile, iii. 97.
Aldnaheirbh, i. 188.
Aldnakilie water, ii. 558.
Aldnalouchart, L 191.
Aldnegalgus (Altnacealgach), iL 437 ;

iii. 97.
Ald-Sputy, iii. 103.
Aldwhariebum, i. 312 ; ii. 611, 613.

Ale water, i. 364 ; iii. 167.

Alemoor, iii. 166, 167.

Alexander of Blackhouse, i. 411, 413.

of Pitskellie, ii. 49.

Alexr., minister in Glass parish,

i. 88. ^

John, minister of Creich, i. 203.

Alford, i. 19, 21, 26, 27, 28, 31, 33.

35, 100 ; ii. 244, 262, 487.
Algirth, ii. 605.

Over and Nelher, iii. 209.

Algoes, ii. 202.

Alhansallach, i. 215.

Alison, captain John, iii. 208.

Alisonbank, i. 365, 383, 384.

Alitnie parish, ii. 36.

Allan, Robert, minister of Stapl^;ordon,

i- 392.
Thomas, minister of Vachop, i.

392.
Allan water (Align, Alloun),!. 130, 131,

138, 3iO"3U ; ii. 608, 612.
Allanbuie, i. 90.
Allane Maithe, iii. 136.
Allane vie Rannall, li. 168.
Allansfoord, i. 424.
Allantoun, iii. 134, 207.
Allardice, i. 266.

of that ilk, ii. 43 ; iii. 240,

Adam, minister of Olrigg, 1. I75.

Thomas, of Dunynald, li. 43 ; iii.

247.
Allerg, i. 20, 23.
Allerslie, iii. 127.
Alles castle, iii. 130.
Alloa, i. 136, 306, 308, 309.
Alloin na clach, ii. 555.
AUoinrence, ii. 555.
Allon. See Allan.
Allon-aspick, ii. 555.
Alloway, ii. i.

All saints fair, Fordyce, ii. 266.
Allumfoord, iii. 173.
Almond house, or Haining, i. 316.
river, ii. 571, 614, 615; iii. 115,

116.
Almryclose, ii. 46.
Alness, description of the parish of,

i. 212.
Alpinus, ii. 34.
Alquharey, iii. 17.
Alt Achaglen, ii. 539.
Alt Ardour, ii. 599.
Altavise (Altavick), ii. 584.
Aha Whowling, ii. 574.
Alt Beatadrum, ii. 548.
Alt Brakky, ii. 562,
Altbruachag, ii. 559.
Alt Caillevie, ii. 568.

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GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Ah Chaille-ress, ii* 599.

Altchailtuy, ii. 599.

Alt Chriachie, ii. 574.

Altcoryhewnan, ii. 534.

Alt Cnmnord, ii. 546.

Alt Darnaske, ii. 535.

Altdo, iL 556.

Alt Downie, ii. 550.

Alt Eijmch, ii. 596.

Altenaslattoch, ii. 568.

Alterne, ii. 173.

Alterwall loch, iii. 84.

Alt Faem, ii. 547, 569.

Alt Favenes, ii. 576.

Alt Gellagach water, ii. 545.

Alt Gran, ii. 555.

Alt InneriQg-Gauran, ii. 57a

Altitudor burn, ii. 436 ; iii. 97.

Altkaig, ii. 553.

Alt-laen burn, ii. 541.

Alt Laurie, ii. 574.

Alt Leachmoir bum, ii. 545.

Alt-Maccairen burn, ii. 542.

Alt Marky, ii. 577.

Altmor hills (Altmore), ii. 232, 254.

Altna, ii. 568.

Altnaslanach, ii. 607.

Altour, i. 2x9.

Alt Rait, ii. 574.

Alt-Row, ii. 547.

Alt Roy, ii. 577.

Alt Ruddaeg, ii. 574*

Alt Terly, ii. 557.

Altvery Gewiss, ii. 568.

Alt Whurr. See Aldwharie.

Altyr, ii. 432, 553-

Aluan water, iii. 56, 132.

Alum, iii. 16.

Alva, i. 42, 48, 74, 76. 77, 136, 244,

306.
Alves, i. 232, 233, 234 ; description of

the parish, i. 236.
Alyth, i. xxiv, 109, no, 113.
Amad, ii. S46, 56^.
Amad na Gouillyin, ii. 545, 601.
Amad na heglisse, ii. 546, 568.
Amad Tua, ii. 568.
Ampsfield, i. 377.
Amethysts, iii. 17, 51.
Anachie, i. 45, 63.
Ananbilley, iii. 266.
Ananva, iii. 276.

' Ancestors of our nation,' ii. 376.
Anchie water, i. 67.
Ancrum, iii. 136, 137, 157.
—•lord, iii. 161.
Anderson of Tushillaw, i. 357.

minister of Calder, i. 226.

Alexander, of Aberdeen, ii. 474.

Anderson, David, of Aberdeen, ii. 474.

Tames, minister of Kettins, i. 281.

William, theologian, etc, iL 473.

Androwiden, ii. 600.
Anelshope, iii. 166.
Angleraw, iii. 179.
Anglesey, iL 316 «.
Angus, earl of, i. 384.

Gilbert, earl of, L 271.

Hope, iiL 135.

Annaff, ii. 162.

Annan, L 366, 369, 370, 382, 387;

ii- 355» 606, 607.
water, L 367, 368 ; iL 592, 593 ;

iii. 163.
Annand, John, minister of Wick, L

162.

Wm., minister of Belly, L 240.

Annandale, iiL 156, 196; descriptioii

of, by Wm. Garrioch, i. 365.

carls of, iiL 187.

Annankirk, i. 370.
Annat, i. 338.
Annets, iL 612.
Annystoun, iii. 133.
Ansterfeild, L 287.
Anstruther, ii. 405 ; iiL 22a

sir Alexander, of Newark, i. 30$.

Antanalbany, ii. 14, 19.

Antiquities, i. xxvii.

Anworth, iL 66, 67, 68, 71, 105, Iio^

Aonstoppen, 1. 190.

Apagil, 1. 188.

Apil-corse (Applecross), ii. 538, 542.

Aplegarth kirk, i. 367.

Appin, iL 154, 155, 157, 516, 517.

laird of, iL 155.

Appin-Dow, ii. 599.

Appin na Dow, ii. 599.

Applebee loch, iii. 129.

Arbegle, ii. 130.

Arbirlot, i. 275 ; ii. 44, 45, 47.

Arbirtarf. See Abertarf .

Arboll, Easter and Wester, L 215.

Arbroath, i. 275 ; ii. 21-24, 44, 45, 46,
50 ; iii. 244.

Arbuthnot, i. 2S7> 263, 264, 266-2691

viscount of, i. 250; ii. 40.

Alexander, of Oiimgall, L 45.

John, of Caterline, i. 257.

Aicanbuff, ii. 554.

Archbald, Dr., his account of the cari-
osities of Dumfries, iiL 185 ; and of
the fishes in Galloway, 194.

Archenchar, i. 36.

Archindeavie, iii. 125.

Arcon, L 21a

Ardaloch, L 198, 199. *

GENERAL INDEX

887

Ardaneiseich, i. 187, 188.

Ardardan, ii. 198.

Ardaurig, iL 600.

Ardbeg, i. 197.

Ardbenie, i. 140.

Ardblair, ii. 572.

Ardbrak, ii. 547.

Ardchaillie, ii. 535.

Ardchattan, ii. 153, 515.

Ardclach, i. 224, 228.

Ard doan dauf, ii. 598.

Arde, iii. 270.

Ardelu, ii. 542.

Ardeskeodines, ii. 147-150, 186, 512,

513.
Ardestie, li. 32.
Ardgeith, i. 22, 24, 25.
Ardgicht, ii. 238.
Ardgowan, ii. 205 ; iii. 127.
Ardgour, ii. 163-165, 167, 169, 312,

359» 520, 521, 523.
Ardgy, i. 237.
Ardgytb, ii. 239.
Ardiharrell, i. 9.
Ardill river, ii. 572.
Ardincanach, iii. 311.
Ardincaple, ii. 194, 199.
Ardin Ridir, iii. 279.
Ardirsier,!. 224, 227, 231 ; ii. 431.
Ardivie, i. 274.

Ardkinglais, ii. 146, 199, 511, 512.
Ardlair, i. 280 ; ii. 484.
Ardlait,ii. 583.
Ardle rirer, ii. 594.
Ardlelhin, i. 426.
Ardlogie, i. 43. 94-
Ardmackie, ii. 567.
Ardmakmoynen, iL 566.
Ardmanwell, ii. 604.
Ard Meanach, ii. 415, 553.
Ardmillan, ii. 10, 5871 592-

laird of, ii. 7.

Ardmore, i. 196 ; ii. 198, 547, 569.

Ardnaclocb, ii. 154, 516.

Ardnakeldan, ii. 584.

Ardnalynn, ii. 601.

Ardnamurchen, ii. 156, 167, 359, 517,

521.
Ard-na-Seya, ii. 558.
Ardnaske, ii. 535.
Ardnaslanacb, ii. 559.
Ardnewff, ii. 191.
Ardoch, i. 131, 138, 190, 191, 312,

313.337.338- ..
Ardounie, ii. 32 ; in. 245.
Ard Ross, ii. 414.
Ardstincher castle, ii. 1 1, 20.
Ard-Torrenish castle, ii. 521.
Ardunchar,i. 31.

VOL. III.

Ardurines, iii. 108.
Arduthie, i. 250; iii. 237.
Arduylick, ii. 536.
Ardvredach, ii. 574.
Ardwell, ii. 96 ; iii. 129.
Argatic, i. 337.

Argyll, ii. 144, 145, 155, 167, 188, 192,
201, 313 «. 358, 378, 517. 537. ^

earle of, ii. 144-151, 186, 187,

199. 217, 5"-5i6, 520, 526, 527.

marquis of, ii. 595.

Arclubald, earl of, ii. 145.

Arimin, I 396, 399.

Arisaick, ii. 156, 167, 168, 359, 517,

522.

Ariullan, ii. 87.
Arkaig, ii. 160, 556-557.
Arkeltoun, i. 394.
Arkil mountain, ii. 438.
Arkill, i. 194 ; iii. 99.
Arkland, i. 396.
Aries, ii. 371.
Armi river, i. 219.
Armidale, i. 187 ; ii. 221.

river, ii. 560.

Armstrong of Kilknocky, i. 388.

family, i. 388, 393.

Amabol, i. 194.
Amage, i. 43, 97, 426 ; u. 238.
Amb(^, ii. 610.
Ame nver. See Earn.
Amemoir, ii. 610.
AmeTuUy, ii. 571, 572.
Amgibbon, i. 351 ; ii- 604, 609, 610.
Amgask, i. 115, 124, 127.
Arnhall, i. 267, 269.
Amhill, i. 310.

Amistill, ii. 175, 179. 5*6, 529.
Amiston, ii. 619 ; iii. 120.
Arnmannell, ii. 610.
Ammore, i. 3JI.
Amok river, ii. 590.
Ampriour (Ampryour), ii, 604, 610.
Aross castle, iii. 279.
Arrane illand (Arren), ii. 188, 527,
537,592; iii. 263.

earl of, iL 252.

Arrandith, i. 208.
Arrat, John, of Baikie, iii. 246.
Arrestrem, iiL 127.
Arrochar, ii. 193, 198, 199.
Arrot, iL 40, 41.
Artamphort, i. 44, 61, 62.
Artasolie, ii. 554.
Arthlach, i. 82.
Arthur, Galfrid, iL 328.

— house, L 263.

Seat, iL 622, 624 ; iii. 123.

Arthurs Oven, i. 330.

y

888

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Aiyween, ii. 564.

Ashintillie, iL 36.

Ashisteill, i. 361 ; iii. i64«

Askemorruy, ii. 583.

Askerin, iiL 285.

Askirk loch, iii. 137.

Asleed, i. 79.

Asliesk, i. 2^7, 238 ; ii. 432.

Assynt (Assint: Assyn), i. 186, 197,

212, 213; ii. 310, 3j;9, 413, 417.

418, 427, 437, 441, 539. S4S» 600;

description, ii. 414.
Aswanly, L 81.
Atadilbeg, ii. C48.
Atadill-Moir, li. 548.
Atchison's Bank, l 383.
Athelstone, iii. 142, 145, 150, 154, 155.
Athelstonfoord, i. 374, 375, 378.
Atherston, i. 376.
Athole (Athoil), ii* 358; 432, 525, 571-

duke of, 1. 112, 137.

earl of, i. 246 ; iL 252.

earls of, ii. 231, 253.

Atkins, Thomas, ii. 83.
Atkinson, John, iii. 35.

Stephen, his account of mines and

minerals, iii. xv, xviii, 48.
Aubirchalduy, ii. 598.
Aubir-Challadyr-Beg, ii. 556.
Aubir-Challadyr-Moir, ii. 556.
Auchacharne. See Achacharn.
Auchans, i. 412 ; ii. 589.
Auchaquhill, ii. 544.
Auchenbetridge, i. 372, 383.
Auchenbowie, i. 315.
Auchenlilly Lin, i. 326.
Auchin, laird of, i. 2.
Auchinashilach, ii. 548.
Auchinblay, i. 267, 269, 270.
Auchincroof, i. 411.
Auchindellen, i. 15.
Auchindinny, ii. 617 ; iii. 119.
Auchindollie, i. 396.
Auchindore, i. 1,2, X2, 13, 21, 28, 30,

32-35-
Auchindown, i. 88.

castle, i. 246 ; ii. 231, 253.

laird of, ii- 472.

Auchingill, i. 161, 372, 393.
Auchinlek of that ilk, iL 32, 50.
Auchinnagat, ii. 547.
Auchinnencie Muir, i. 30.
Auchinreoch in Urr, i. 396, 398.
Auchintroig. See Achintroig
Auchires, i. xxiv, 40, 47, 48, 55, 56.
laird of, his description of Rat hen,

i. 54.
Auchlie lochs, 1. 70.

Auchlinchrie, i. 286.
Auchlossen Lough, i. 102.
Auchluncart, ii. 231.
Auchlyne, laird of, i. 14.
Auchmacoy, i. 43, 97, 437.
Auchmar, i. 345.
Auchmedden, i. xxv, 41, 47, 49.
AuchmuUen, i. 22, 34.
Auchmunziel, L 61.
Auchmutie, i. 275 ; ii. 22, 44.
Auchnagat, L 44.
Auchnames, iii. 127.
Auchnatroch, iii. 128.
Auchorichin, L 79.
Auchorties, i. 98, 109.
Auchred^, L 61, 62, 426; iiL 227.
Auchrenie, i. 63.
Auchry, i. 44, 78.

castle, L 79.

Auchtenny, i. 125.
Auchteralyth, L II2, 1 14.
Auchter-Anchle, iL 555.
Auchterarder, i. 118, 137.
Auchterderan, i. 302.
Auchterellon, i. 43, 97, 426.
Auchtergaven, iL 571.
Auchterhouse, i. 109; ii. 30, 33; iii.

246.
Auchterless, L 4, 5, 38, 42 ; iL 239, 256 ;

iii. 227.
description of the parish by Wm.

Walker, 1. 91.
Auchterlonie of that ilk, ii. 27, 28, 37,

47,50,51; iiL 245.

of Cairnie, iii. 248.

—John, of Carmyllie, iL 47 ; iiL 247.
of Guinde, ii. xxiv, xxrii,

21, 27 ; iii. XV, xxi, 244.

Mr., minister in Cajrmyllie, ii. 47,

Patrick, iii. 247.

Auchterminume, iiL 125.
Auchtermuchty, i. 115, 294.
Auchtertool, i. 302.
Auchtertyre. See Ochtertyre.
Auchtydonald, i. 45, 70.
Auklugate, L 177.
Auld Acaran, i. 182.
Auldbar, i. 274 ; ii. 28, 4a

laird of, ii. 27.

Auld Caddel, ii. 557.

Auld Chonnigil, L 183.

Auldearg, i. 225.

Auldearn, i. 224, 231, 310 ; ii. 431.

Auld Graindt river, i. 212.

Auld na Sai, L 312.

Aultnudir, L 168.

Ausdale, L 163, 165.

Auskerrie, iii. 304.

Ava, iii. 227.

GENERAL INDEX

8d9

Avarig hills, ii. 543, 551.
Avendale, i. 415.
Avenell, Roger, iii. 209.
Avoch, ii. 554.

^~- description of the parish, i. 208.

Avon, river, i. 261, 316-318, 323 ; ii.

230, 250. 253, 312, 575 ; iii. 243.

— Aellevin, ii. 601.

Afimg, ii. J53.

Arduran, ii. 534.

Arkeg, ii. 556, 557.

Aton, ii. 539.

-^ Auchadren, ii. 541.

Brechack, ii. 540.

Bretill, ii. 583.

Browlyn, ii. 552.

Buick, ii. J49.

Canroun, ii. 548.

Chro, ii. J44.

Chultin nvcr, ii. 517.

Con, ii. 539.

Cononess, ii. 534.

Dallash, ii. 547.

Daw, ii. 563.

Durgur, ii. 517.

Dyrry, ii. 551.

Elcheg, ii. 544.

Esbnlg, ii. 546.

Ew, ii. 539, 540.

Eyracht^, ii. 570.

Farrar, li. 553.

Feor, ii. 552.

Ferbaryn, ii. 551.

Fyn, ii. 534.

Garera, ii. 551.

Ga^nian, ii. 536.

Clash, ii. 553.

Glenduy, ii. 545.

Glen Wiaig, ii. 550.

Grunord, ii. 540.

Hasgeg, ii. 542.

Hand, ii. 527.

Kalladar, ii. 574.

Kilmore, ii. 584.

Loing, ii. 541, 544-

— Mastrachan, ii. 558.

Muckemich, ii. 601.

na Heglise, ii. 562.

Pottaig, ii. 599.

Rennach, ii. 5JI.

Reshert, ii. 538.

Rinaeg, ii. 543, 544.

Riochar, ii. 551.

Rivowachan, iL 548.

Roik or Ryce, ii. 582.

Rothymurcus, ii. 578.

Sell, ii. 543.

Sheill, ii. 544.

Skiach, ii. 555.

Avon Sligach or Sligachan, ii. 582.

Spanyedal, ii. 545,

Stronchrowbie, ii. 545.

Teriff, ii. 562.

Trowy, ii. 578.

Truym, ii. 576.

Vaich, ii. 551.

Avoyn, iii. 265.

Awe river, ii. 148, 152, 512, 5I4»5I5-

Awin illand, ii. 187. .

Awindiultra river, ii. 157.

Awindurgoure river, ii. 157.

Ay water, iii. 208, 209.

Aynick river, ii. 568.

Aynie, ii. 312.

Ayr (Ayre, Aire), i. 409; ii. i, 4-5 «,

6. 70, 91, 356» 4«4» 586, 587, 592,

606, 607.

river, i. 410 ; ii. 587, 588, 606.

shire, ii. 52, 70, 201.

Aytoun, iii. 173, 183.
Thomas, l 115.

Baadchrashib, i. 24.

Baads, ii. 598, 616.

Baalcrokan, ii. 608.

Baberton, ii. 617 ; iii. 118.

Bachlay, i. 76.

Backerowford, i. 326.

Backmos, i. 100.

Back of the Knock, iii. 151.

Badcall, i. 197, 198.

Badd ferry, i. ^39.

Baddamheoir, 1. 194.

Baddturrich, i. 353.

Badechaille, ii. 560.

Badendalloch, i. 35a

Badenoch (Badanich), ii. 173, 174,
224, 241, 249, 260, 306, 307, 312,
412, 4i3» 429, 432. 435f 519, 52S>
565* 572, 597, S99» 600; notes of
distances, 595.

Badenseoch, i. 93.

Badenzeon, i. 22, 27.

Badillahamhise, i. 192.

Badinteule, i. 74.

Badlieu, iii. 153.

Badnabagh, i. 197.

Bagbie, iii. 132.

Baghastill, iii. 290.

Bagisty, i. 188, 189.

Bagro or Bq^garraw, i. 235.

Baid. 5^^ Baads.
I Baidlae, ii. 579.

Baikie, iii. 246.

Thomas, i. 146.

I Bailamhulin, i. 187.

Bailigill, i. 187.

Baillamlulich, i. 192.

840

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Baillanagowne, ii. 517.
Baillie of Carnbree, i. 418.

of Carphin, i. 421.

of Hillhead, i. 421.

of Jeriston , i. 42 1 .

Alexander, of Callings, iii. 145.

Maj^alene, countess of Suther-
land, ill. 99.

sir William, of Lamintoun, his

description of Lanerick, iii. 131.

— - William, of Carphin, his descrip-
tion of Lanerick, iii. 131.
Baill ne Kill, iii. 108.
Baindow water, i. 347.
Baird, William, of Auchmedden, i. 4i>

49.
Bairns, laird of, ii. 200.
Baith, i. 287.
Bakady, ii. 608.
Bakan, ii. 61 2.
Baknay castle, ii. 555.
Balachastell, ii. 595.
Balachmont, ii. 4.
Balachtowle tower, ii. 13.
Balagan, ii. 580.
Balate bum, ii. 609.
Balbegno, i. 267-269.
Balbimey, i. 299, 300.
Balbithan, i. 9.
Balblare, i. 187.
Balcarie, ii. 58, 90, 115.
Balcam, i. S^.
Balcarres, lord, ii. 406.
Balchomas, ii. 599.
Balchreigan, ii. 567.
Balclay chapel, i. 164.
Baldone (Raldoon), ii. 99, 107, 113 ;

iii. 129.
Baldovane, ii. 34.

Baldovie, i. 75 ; ii. 31, 37,43 ; iii. 247.
Baldowrie, i. 280.
Baldride, i. 291.
Baldsyd, i. 361.
Balduny, i. 280.
Balechemoch Beg, ii. 556.

Moir, ii. 556.

Bale Cheules ferry, ii. 517.

Balechowcltich, ii. 558.

Balechroan, ii. 574,

Balecroy, ii. 558.

Bale-Mackaen, ii. 550.

Balemeanach, ii. 562.

Balemore, ii. 578.

Balemoulin, ii. 562, 563.

Balenay, ii. 617; i"- Ii8.

Bale-Robert, ii. 555.

Balerongan, ii. 578.

Baleville (Balefoil, Balefool), ii. 597,

609, 610.

Balevouling, ii. 598.

Balcwlax, iL 555.

Balfarg, i. 299, 30a

Balfour bum, i. 267-269.

of Breadmedows, i. 359.

^^ George, of Balbirney, i. 30a

minister of Calder, i. 226.

James, of Beath, i. 292.

Janet, of Kerristone, i. 301.

Robert de, principal of Guyenne

college, Bordeaux, iiu 259.

Balfours, ii. 406 ; of that ilk, i. 301.

Balfron, L 348; description of the
parish, 349.

Balgair, i. 350 ; ii. 200.

Balgarvy, i. ^04.

Balgay, ii. 28, 32, 574; iu. 245.

Balgillo, ii. 29, 32.

Balglash(Balglass), i. 349; ii. 581.

Balglassie, i. 275..

Balgone, i. 118, 301 ; iii. 114.

Balgore,i. 280.

Balgowan, laird of, L 1 1 1.

Balgray, ii. 208.

Balgreggan, ii. 96, 117 ; iii. 129.

Balhaldie bum, i. 314.

Balhall, ii. 38.

Balharry, i. 11 1.

Balhelvy, i. 84.

Balie, i. 184.

Balin chappell, ii. 555.

Balinach, it. 554, J69.

Balinascarr, ii. 558.

Balinchannaim, ii. 581.
I Balindeer, ii. 534.
' Balinlich, ii. 547.

Balintoun, ii. 611.

Baljordie, ii. 38, 50.

Balkeirie, i. 278.

Ballachan, i. 338.

Ballach Chnoicfin, i. 183.

Ballach hill, i. 89, 90.

Ballachruih, i. 349.

Ballage, ii. 14.

Ballanagoune, ii. 157.

Ballanton, i. 336, 338. 341.

Ballantrae, ii. I, 2, 7, 10, 15, 18, 20,
90, 584-586, 606.

Ballat, Easter and Wester, i. 348.

Balle Knok, ii. 555.

Ballencrief, i. 374, 375 ; iii. 114.

Ballenden. Su Bellenden.

Ballewlair, ii. 541.

Ballgair. See Balgair.

Ballindallach, i. 230 ; ii. 230, 581 ; iiL

243.
Ballingry (Balingrow), l 302, 338 ; u.

610.
Ballinshoe, ii. 30. ,

GENERAL INDEX

S41

Ballmitchel, i. 318.
Balliuibriech, iL 40.
Balloch, i. 112, 354, 401 ; ii. 232, 254,

537. 538. 584, 594.
BallomUl, L 297.
Ballwill, i. 348.
Balmac cairen, ii. 542.
Balmaclellan, i. 395 ; ii. 55, 60-63, 68,

71, 108, 130 ; iii. 205.
Balmadie, i. 276; ii. 28, ^i ; iii. 125.
Balmaghie (Balm'ghie), ii. 49, 59, 60,

63, 64, 66, 68, 71, 108, 109, 131.
^— laird of, ii. 63.
Balmanno, i. 128.
Balmaquen (Balmakuyan), i. 268; ii.

nashanner, ii. 26, 50 ; iii. 244.
Balmerino, lord, L 1 1 1 ; ii. 36, 406.
•^— monastery, ii. 405.
Balmorle, i. 287.
Balmule, i. 291.
Balmuydie, ii. 368.
Balnabodach, i. 37.
Baloacraig, i. 103, io6»
Balnagown, ii. 4x6.

laird of, i. 201, 202 ; ii. 547.

Balnagrew, ii. 611.
Balnahannord, ii. 562.
Baloaheslish, ii. 549, 550, 563.
Balnakelly (Balnacille), i. 31, 193, 263,

267, 269 ; ii. ^60.
Balnaketle, i. 267, 269.
Balnalidy, i. 263.
Balnamoone, L 274 ; ii. 22, 38.
■ laird of, ii. 40.
Balnaquhan, i. 262.
Balnespick, ii. 577.
Balnew, ii. 555.
Balnlair, ii. 548.
Balone, i. 214, 274, 280.
Balou water, i. 117.
Balquholie, i. 42, 92.
Balqnhoyn, i. 7, 17, 18.

laird of, i. 4.

Balqnhidder (Bal wider, Buquhyddyr),

i. 133. 134, 334 ; ii. S^S* 593. 597-
Balra castle, iii. 130.
Balridge, i. 287.
Balsaiach, ii. 21.
Balshione, ii. 44.
Baltessan, ii. 586.
Balthe)riok, i. 112.

laird of, ii. 35.

Balumbie, ii. 32, 33 ; iii. 246.
— laird of, li. 32.
Balvaird, i. 116, 118.

Mr., minister in Idvie, ii. 47.

Balveny, i. 87, 246; ii. 230, 231, 250,

253. 312, 432. 485-

Balvie, ii. 194.

Balwhatstoue, i. 318.

Balyordie, i. 274.

Bamakeilla, iii. 240.

Bambarroch, laird of, ii. 77, 84, 90.

Bambrich, ii. 403.

Banchory, i. 104, 108, 247, 255, 428.-

Devenick, i. 99, 107, 261 ; ii. 242,

243, 261.

Ternan, i. loi.

Trinity, i. 259, 260, 429.

Bandcloich, ii. 579.

Bandheath, ii. 579 ; iii. 135.

Bandoch, laird of, ii. 30,

Bandon house, i. 300.

Bandyrrin, i. 279, 280.

Banff, i. 49, 50, 53, 76, 112; ii. 143,

234, 238, 249, 256, 257, j6o;

description of burgh and parish, i.

242 ; aescription olthe shire, ii. 250 ;

notes for a description of the shire,

ii. 224 ; notes to map, 248.

lord, i. 76 ; ii. 235.

Bangor monastery, ii. 370.
Bankell, ii. 579.
Bankhead, i. 75, 318; ii. 589.
Bank of Bogie, i. 33.
Bankyr, ii. 368.
Bannan Ocrach, ii. 554.
Bannatyne, Archbald, ii. 205.
Bannerman of Elsick, i. 250, 255; iii.

240.

of Watertoun, i. 249 2^5.

Bannockbum, i. 315, 380; iii. 182.

Banochran, ii. 198.

Bantaskine, i. 321, 322.

Ban WTioyng, ii. 551.

Barack, i. 61.

Barbuss, ii. 608.

Bar-chaildein castle, ii. 516.

Barclanachan, ii. 1 1, 2a

Barclay of Maiters (Mathers), iii. 240.

of Tillienaught, i. 74.

of Towie, i. 42.

of Ury, iii. 24a

Sir Alex., of Towie, i. 92

David, of Mathers, i. 250.

^^ colonel, i. 250, 251.

George, his description of the

parish of Dunfermline, 1. 287.

Robert, of Urie, i. 252.

Thomas de, docteur regent, Tou-
louse, iii. 259.
William, physician of Aberdeen,

ii. 476.
Barclays of Colerny, i. 305

of Towy, ii. 236, 238.

Bardovy, ii. 579.
Bardrochatt, ii. 15.

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GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Bardrochwood, L 407.

Barefoord, i. 377,

Bargally, i. 407, 408.

Balkan, ii. 609.

Bargarran, L 425 ; ii. 204.

Baigeny, ii. 5, 6, 12, 20, 585, 586, 606.

— - fiimily of, ii. 6.

— laird of, ii. 8, 15, 16, 19, 20.
Barhill, ii. 368 ; iii. 1 24.
Barhoshe, ii. 113.
Barlannochan, ii. 588.
Barmbaro, iii. 129.

Barn, iL2oa

Bambarroch, ii. 80, 113.

Barne^ts, L 332.

Barnhill, iii. 245.

Barnkylie, i. 397, 398.

Bams, L 4, 16, 376 ; ii. 196, 550, 580;

iik 1x4, 15a
B a ms acg, ii. 542.

Beg, u. 542, 543.

Moir, iL $42^ 543.

Barnton, ii. 617; iii. 118.

Bamweill, i. 413.

Barochan, ii. 207 ; iiL 126, 127.

laird of, ii. 2xa

Barr, ii. 2, 14, 18, 19, 69, 203, 205, 589.
Barra or Barray, i. 9-11 ; ii. 177, 179,

180, 210 ; iii. 1 14, 222, 287.

— Uird of, iii. 222.
Barranasketaig, ii. 584.
Barranis mountains, ii. 548.
Barras, i. 257, 265.
Barrasgate, i. 372.
BarrehtU. See Barryhill.
Barrie, ii. 44, 49, 50.
Barringail, iii. 145.
Barrisdaill, ii. 542.
Barrivan, i. 227.

Barrock. See Sinclair, John.
Barron, Robert, theologian, Aberdeen,

^ ". 473. 477.

Barroun, ii. 38.

Barroway, i. 295.

Barrowes, i. 384.

BarrowesUcks, i. 383.

Barrowgate, i. 387.

Barrjr's History of Orkmy^ iii. viii, x.

xh.
Barrvhill, i. 12, 114; ii. 14.
Barskimins, i. 412 ; ii. 587.
Barthol-£ur, i. 102.
Bartlennachan, ii. 585.
Bartnasale, ii. 567.
Bartromsballs, i. 423.
Barullion, ii. 85.
Barvistoun, ii. 585.
Barwich, i. 153.
Bass, the, iii. 112.

Bassindean, iii. 176, 179.

Bastenrig, iii. 183, 184.

Bat cheik, ii. 564.

Bateackan, iL 599.

Bates ferry on the Tweed, i. 380, 381.

Bathanes, iii. 114.

Bavelay, ii. 617 ; iii. 118.

Bavie, ii. 579.

Bavkie, ii. 36.

Bawds-Knowe, i. 399.

Bawlioehead, iu 2 1 1 .

Bayly. &^ Baillie. •

Beal, Dr. J., hints on horticultmrey iiL

xiv, xvi, 2a
Beancross, L 321, 323.
Beanderloch (B^dirlogh, BeaoRdir-

dalloch), iL 148, 153. J54» S«5j S«^
rie

Beaneves (Beanneves). &yBcn-

Beanshyr La;^d, ii. 551.

Beanstoun, iii. 1 14.

Beany bum, i. 260, 428.

Bearcrofts, L 317, 320, 321.

Bearholme, i. 367.

Beasts of Holm» iL 210.

Beath, L 290, 291, 294, 302; iL ao9;
description of the parish by Steven-
son, i. 302.

Beaton, cardinal, L 303; ii. 28, 37;
iii. 259.

James, archbishop of Glasgow,

i. 30 ; iii. 259.

Neil, minister of Lathron, i. 169^

Robert, 20a

of Westhall, ii. 5a

Beaufort castle. Set Downie. ~

Beauly, L 2U ; iL 413, 415, 543, 552,.

553. 555.
Beaumont water, lu. 136.
Becrinside, iii. 182.
Bede's Ecclesiastical History^ notes on,

ii. 312.
Bedreule, iii. 137.
Bedshile, iiL 179.
Bee tiand, ii. 602, 603.
BeUd,iiL 153.
Beill, iii. 114-

water, iiL iii.

Beinmhaill castle, iL x8i, 530,

Belchester, iiL 125, 178.

Beldomy, L 80.

Bell's Moss, L 120.

Bella castle, iii. 243.

Bellabeg, i. 20.

BelUchan, ii. 598.

Bellachan-Scard, ii. 582. ^

Bellach Kresky, iL 551.

Bellach na mearlach, L 194.

Bellach-Trxadan, ii. 597.

Bellafirish, L 225.

GENERAL INDEX

S4S

Bellanden, iiL i66.

— ~- Adam» bishop of Aberdeen, ii. 487.

John, iii. ix.

Robert, HL 33.

Bellentone, iii 240.

Bellicheillis feme, ii. 157.

Belliclon, i. 140.

Bellie, i. 88 ; description of the parish,

239.

Bellies balk, iii. 56.

Bellimore, ii. 19.

Bellitaw, iii. 177.,

Bellormie, ii. 433.

Belnaboddach, i. 20.

Belnachna, iii. 268.

Belrinnis, i. 246.

Beltenmount, L 372.

Beltersan, ii. 6, 21.

Beltie» i. 104, 105.

Beltrees, ii. 205.

Bemangane, ii. 65.

Bemerside, iii. 176.

Ben, Jo., iii. vii-xiii, xvii; his Dt'

scripHon of Orkney^ iiL 302.
Ben Achacham, ii. 543.
Ben Achnagowen, ii. 545.
Ben-Aillayr, ii. 599.
Ben-Aillhoyr, ii. 576.
Benaliskie, L 164.
Benannoyre, iii. 266.
Ben Arkel, ii. 418.
Benartie, ii. 403.
Ben- A von, ii 230, 253.
BenchearoU, iii. 97.
Bencheilis, iii. 266.
Bencheilt, i. 166.
Benchie, iii. 97.
Ben Chlribig, iii. 109.
Benchroin, li. 612.
Ben Chrowbin, ii. 556.
Ben-Crowlash, ii. 596.
Bendeargbeg, i. 194.
Bendearg-garorain, ii. 551.
Bendeargmor, i. 194.
Bendirach, i. 194.
Bendochary, ii. 534.
Bendochie, i. 109, no.
Ben Dowran, ii. 536.
Ben Dronnaig, ii. 552.
Benduphigh. Set Bennochie.
Benevin, ii. 599.
Benglass^ ii. 537» 613.
Bengten-laid Goar, ii. 548.
Bengrimes, iii. lox.
Ben Gyroy, ii. 535.
Benhalloin, ii. 534.
Benham, bishop, i. 85.
Benholm, I. 263, 264, 266.
Benhope, i. 191 ; iii. 109.

Benlaid Gour, ii. 548.

Ben Lawers, iL 562, 564, 598, 599.

Benleddie (Binlydy), i. 134, 135; ii.

566, 598.
BenlevoU, iii. 109.
Ben-lhny. .S>< Benluy.
Benlomond, i. 347.
Ben Loyd, iii. 97.
Benluy, ii. 534, 536, 593,
Ben-Manni£f, ii. 567.
Benmoir, ii, 414, 436, 534, 535, 565.
^^ in Assynt, ii. 601 ; iiL 97.
Bennachar (Bewnachar), ii. 558, 574.
Ben-na-mbud, i. 182-184.
Bennan, ii. 6, 14, 19, 20.
Bennchivish, i. 198.
Benncblibrig, i. 18
Benndreavie, L 19
Ben-Nedd, iL 540.
Bennen, ii. 562.
Bennet of Chesters, iii. 162*

of Grubbet, iii. 162.

Bennetsfeild (Binnagefield), ii. ^54.
Ben-Nevis (Binnevish), ii. 158, 518,

537. 555.
Bennhee, 1. 193 ; m. 99.
Bennlaghoil, i. 191.
Bennleoid, i. 198.
Benn-na-skie, L xxiv, 219.
Bennochie, alias Benduphigh, i. 3, 5,

6, 12, 18, 84 ; ii. 239, 240, 244, 258,

262.
Bennonhill, i. 396.
Bennstack, i. 198.
Benoboddach,i. 22.
Benormin, iii. 99.
Benraw (Ben Roy), i. 182.
Benscard, ii. 582.
Bensenta, iii. 266.
Benshyres, ii. 552.
Benspinn, i. 194.
Benstomnie, i. 189 ; iii. 109.
Benstrom, i. 198.
Benteaskernich, ii. 563.
Bents water, L 21.
Ben-vacky, ii. 556.
Ben Vallich, L 183.
Benvie, ii. 30, 34.

Ben-Vroden (Bini-Vroden), ii. 241, 260,
Benwaddie, iiL 10 1.
Ben Wreick, ii. 596.
Benwyry, iL 598.
Beny, ii. 578, 609.
Beoch, ii. 19.
Berigonium, ii. 160, 518.
Berisay, ii. 213.
Bermonie, i. 1x1.

Berneray, ii. 177, 184, 529, 532; iii. 286.
Berneray Beg, ii. 213 ; iiL 298.

S44

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Bemeniy Moir, ii S13 ; iiL 29&

Berndail, L 164 ; iiL 83, 84.

castle, L 165 ; iL 423.

Berriehill, iiL 183.

Bertha, iL 572.

Bervy, L 257, 258, 263-266 ; iiL 236,
a39»246.

water, iiL 232, 236.

Berwick (BarFick), iL 509, 510, 604,
607.

boro, iiL 172.

Berwickshire, description of, iiL 169.

Bethelnie, L i, 11, 12, 83.

Betheivy, L 98.

Bethey, iiL 273.

Betick, L 367.

Bexwell, iiL 309.

Bhealadbeg, ii. 574,

Bhealadmoir, iL 574.

Bheamish hill, ii. 551, 552.

Bhellach-iu)cht, ii. 562.

BhelUch na hetai^, iL 564.

Bhellach Shanlang, ii. 613.

Bickerton of Luihess, L 374.

Biggar, iL 586, 587, 607 ; iiL 134, 156.

water, iiL 133, 145, 151.

Bigholmsbam, L 391.

Bighonse, L 186.

Bigistarrs, iiL 129.

Bigskarr»iL 115.

Bilbster, i. 157, 158, i6a

Bildone, ii. 80.

Bilhope, iiL 136.

Bille, L 397.

Billie castle, iiL 182.

Bin. Su Ben.

Bindy, i. 242-244.

Binhie. Set Bennhee.

Binn, L xi6, 118.

Binnen, i. 22.

Binnhill, iL 135.

Birans, i. 372. .

Burdgame, iii. 171, 178.

Birds of Dumfries, iii. 190 ; of Suther-
land, iii. 99, 105.

Birk wood, ii. 564 ; iiL 137.

Birkcubrent, i. 22.

Birkenbogue, i. 73 ; iL 234.

pirkenside, iii. 175.

Birkhill, iiL 139.

Birkinbum, i. 9a

Birkin island, ii. 211, 212.

Bimes, L 43. 97. 99» 427-

— water, iiL iii.

Birnok head, iiL 132.

Birsa, L 141 ; iii. 309.

Birse, L loi, 105, 106, 107, 260, 264,
266, 269, 428 ; iL 242, 261, 266.

Bishopbourn, ii. 72, 75, 112.

' Bishop's loch, i. 85.
Bidioptown, L 425; iL 204; iii. 127.
Bissie, L 64.
Bissiebenry, iii. 135.
Bithnie, i. 34.
Bimebiggarhead, iiL 133.
Blabalg, iL 598.

Blacater, iiL 179, 184 ; castle, 181.
Blacky Mr., minister of Newtyld, iL

35-

David, of Hill, L 292.

James, minister of Graitney, L

387.

Peter, of Haddo, L 4a

William, of Hai, L 291.

Black Andrew hill, uL 139.
BLackater £unily in Clackmanan, L

308.
Bbckball, L 31.
Blackbarony loch, iiL 144.
Blackbom, iL 234, 255 ; iiL 133, 179,

180, 183.
Black Cart water, iL 205, 206, 208;

iiL 126, 134, 213.
Black Chappel in the Muir, i. 106.
Blackchester, iiL 175.
Blackcraig, iL 605.
Black craig of Dunscoir, i. 396.
Blackcraig of Kells, L 396.
Black Daven, L 307.
Blackdubb, iL 611.
Blackerstoun, iiL 182.
Blacfcfoord, L 93, 137, 313,
Blackgrain, iii. 165.
BUckhall, L 260.

laird of, iL 210.

Blackhauch, iii. 164.

BlackhiU, iiL 135, 175, 183, 184.

Blackhouse, ii. 7 ; iiL 165.

Black-Ironsyd forest, iL 404.

Black isle, iiL 269.

Black Kaim,L 304.

Blacklaw, L 366.

Blacklawhill, ii. 59a

Blacklions in Yarrow, iii. 56.

Black loch, i. 296, 318, 397, 417 ; iL

590, 591 ; iiL 133.
Blacklounans, i. 1 1 2-1 14; iL 35, 36.
Blackmark, L 395, 396, 398.
Blackmiln, L 24.
Blackness, i. 328 ; iL 31.
Black Sark water, L 371, 383.
Blackstoun or Blackstane, i. 42 ; iL

206; iiL 127,133,205,213.
BUu:k- Water, L 26, 36, 66, 343*
Blackwood (Blaquevod), David de, iiL

259.

Robert, of Pittravy, L 291, 293.

house, i. 372.

GENERAL INDEX

345

Blackwrack, ii. no.
BlaerriCy ii. 549.

Blaeu's Atlas^ ii. v, xii, xiv ; contribu-
tors to the letterpress, xvi.

^^S^^'Uf ^ "^*^'' "• 72, 74, 75, 77. 78,
87, 88, 107, II2-IX4, "7; "i. 128.

Blain or M'Craccan, Margaret, il 74.

BUdnsIies, iiL 175.

Blair, L 136; ii. 572, 591, 598.

castle, iii. 130.

of Achinbot, ii. 209.

of Adamtoun, i. 409.

of Ardblair, ii. 572 ; iiL 222.

of Camochyle, i. 350.

. John, of Dunskay, ii. 95.

minister of Portpatrick, ii.

9J-

Blair AthoU, i. 31a

Blairchoil, ii. 611.

Blair Dnimmond, i. 339.

Blairfindie, ii. 23a

Blair Garr^, ii. 566.

Blairhall, 1. 292, 294.

Blair-lochy, iL 536.

Blairmad, i. 75.

Blairmormonth, i. 47, 68.

Blairphine, iii. 243.

Blairauhan, ii. 11, 19.

— laird of, ii. 17.
Blairsesnock, i. 34a
Blairstoun, ii xo, 19, 585.
Blairthill, ii. 201.
Blairtwood, i. 371.
Blandevin, iii. 151.
Blane moor, ii. 582.

- — river, i. 349 ; ii. 580, 581.
Blanem, iii. 182.
Blanse, iii. 114.
Blantyre, i. 414 ; ii. 204.

lord, i. 377, 417, 425 J ii. 194,

203, 210.

Blaqubane, iL 585.
Blelack, L 23.
Blervy, L 231.
Blew Cairn, iii. 156.
Blewtoun, ii. 608.
Blindlie, iii. 139, i64«
Bloatwood, i. 382.
Bloch, i. 39J,
Blockburn, 1. 391.
Blockwell, i. 393.
Bloody Bam, i. 32.
Bloom Sound, iiL 61.
Blucton bum, i. 313.
Blyth, iii. 142, 149, 175.
Blythsmoor, iii. 147.
Boan or Corsbie, iii. 184.
Boat of Al ford, L 35.

— of Kemnay, i. 95, 96.

Bochaletyrs, ii. 596.

Bochassifj ii. 566.

Bochron, ii. 605.

Bock, ii. 601, 602.

Bocsaid, i. 187.

Boddom palace, i. 39.

Bodham, i. 70.

Bodomhead, i. 71.

Bodsbeck, L 366.

Bocspick, iL 595, 597.

Boethius, Hector, ii. 489 ; iii. 21.

Bofaly, ii. 597.

Bofirack, ii. 598.

Bogend, ii. 19 ; iii. 147, 180.

Bogey Shalloch, i. 35.

Boghall, L 266; ii. 208, 209; iiL 127.

Bogheads Moss, L 83.

Boghole, i. 85.

Boghouse, iL 200 ; iii. 146.

Bogie, L 31, 33, 35, 36, 189; iL

432.
river, L I, 12, 13, 15, 86; iL 233,

a49, 255» 3X2.
Bogihhow, iii. 134.
Bog of Gight, i. 73, 76, 241 ; iL 232,

250, 254.
Bogueloach, L 32.
Bogue-park, i. 73.
Boharm, L 87, 88, 245.
Boilnaif, ii. 613.
Boirland, iL 611.
Bokeness, iii. 228.
Boleside, ii. 620 ; iiL 164.
Boleskin (Boleskie), ii. 172, 525, 556 ;

description of the parish of, i. 217.
Bolton, L 375.

water, L 377 ; iiL in.

Bomag bum, ii. 549.

Bomere, ii. 605.

Bonacken, iL 557.

Bonar, James, minister of Maybole, iL

XX, 8.
Bones, ii. 598.
Bonheath, ii. 193.

Bonhill, i. 352 ; ii. 193, 197 ; descrip-
tion of the parish, i. 353.
Boniegocrach, ii. 549, 550.
Bon Jed wart, iiL 137, 162.
Bonnethill, iii. 245.
Bonnietoun or Bionnington, i. 273 ; iL

43,616,617; iiL 117,247.

laird of, it 45, 50.

Bonny house, L 325.

water, L 318, 319, 321, 324; "•

Bonshaw, 1. 371.

Bonstoure, ii. 582.

Bontakhead, iii. 132.

Bontein, Robert, of Mildoven, L 349.

846

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Boogs, i. 442.

Boogton muir, i. 322.

Bootle, il 53, 54, 58, 60, 68» 7i» 108,

122.
Boraal, L 187.
Border laws, iii. 159.
Bordland, i. 107.
Bordmeanach, ii. 582.
Boreraig, ii. 583.
Borgielx»e, i. 189.
Borgie Moar, i. 189.

river, i. 188.

Borgue, i. 169; iL 63-66,68, 71, 108,

126, 131.
Boriuik, 11. 599.
Borlt^m (Borlom, Borlan, Boreland), i.

183; ii. 186, 526, 550. 555, 556;

iii. 148, 150.
Borly, i. 193, 195.
Born, iii. 10^.
Borraness, ii. 584.
Borraness-fuille, ii. 584.
Borrowfeild, ii. 42.
Borrowstoune, i. 104 ; ii. 243, 262.
Borthwick, i. 373 ; ii. 622 ; iiL 181 ;

castle, ii. 619, 620 ; iii. 120, 122 ;

hill, iii. 55, 56 ; water, i. 356 ; iii.

136, 167.
colonel, his account of metals and

minerals in Scotland, iii. 16-54.
Borve castle, ii. 441.
Borwe, iii. 109.
Bothagan, ii. 608.

Bothkenner, i. 319, 3^5. 326, 333. 334-
Bothwell, i. 414-417 ; iii. 134, 181.

bishop of Orkney, i. 148.

Botripbny, i. 87-89, 245.

Bougntrige, iii. 178.

BoundhilT, iiL 184.

Boundrode, iii. 172, 182.

3oundupbom, iii. 172.

Bourhope, iii. 166.

Bourscaiff, i. 190.

Bourtie, t. 6, 9, 10, 17, 82, 83, 98.

Bourtreebush, i. 264.

Bouton, i. 312.

Bowar or Bower, i. 151, 156, 169, 170,

174. 176, 179.
— Alexr., of Kincaldrum, 11. 27.

: Patrick, ii. 26.

Bowens, iii. 227.

Bower bum, i. 177.

Bowermadden, i. 177.

Bowertoun, i. 176, 177.

Bowes, iii. 177.

George, obtains a commission for

gold-mining, iii. 36, 41.
Bowfomought, i. 315.
Bowhan, i. 349» 352.

.>le, L J39.
BowhiU, i. 358 ; iii. 166.
Bowland, ii. 620; iiL 115, 121.
Bowmore, iL 604.
Bownd MylB, iiL 172.
Bowndrich water, iiL 172, 174.
£k>wndtoun, iiL 172.
Bownc, iiL 175
Bownehiil, iii. 176.
Bowness, ii. 237 257, 265.
Bows and arrows in battle, iL IxviiL
Bowside, iiL 121.
Boyd of Bonheatb, iL 193.

of Penbrill, ii. 13.

James, archbishop of Glasgow, iL

13. '

dame Marion, iL 206.

^^ Robert, minister of Bothwell, L

416.

principal of Glasgow colkge»

ii. 13.

Boyds of Pinkhill, ii. 13.
Boyndlie, L 44, 47, 48, 53, 74, 87.

tutor of Pitsligo, L 53.

Boyne, L 48, 73-78 ; iL 232, 234, a49f

250, 254, 256, 265, 266, 31a, 360,

422.

barons of, ii. 235.

Boysack, iL 45.

laiid of, ii. 44.

Bra. See Brae.

Braalbin, L 184.

Brabeg, ii. 554.

Brabster, L 153, 177, 178, 184; iii. 84.

Bracadil, ii. 183, 531, 582, 583 ; iiL 282.

Brace Sound or Broad Sound, iii. 60i

61.
Brachat, iL 545, 560-562.
Brachedill. See BracadiL
Brackenhills, i. 74.
Brackle, ii. 583.
Bracklich, i. 26 ; ii. 548, 558.
Brackox, i. 60.
Braco, L 131, 138, 313. 314; iL 562.

— laird of. See Duft
Bradisholme, i. 418.
Brae, iL 546, 569.
Brae Assyn, ii. 545, 60a
Brae Charroun, ii. 545.
Brae Chat, iL 439.
Braedhirst, i. 422.
Brae-glen, ii. 596.
Brae-glen Coen, ii. 596.
Brae-glen Crevime, ii. 536.
Brae-glen Elcheg, iL 541.
Braeglen Etyf, ii. «7a
Brae Glenfallach, iL 565.
Brae Glen Krevira, ii. 596.
Brae Glenlyon, ii. 563, 596.

GENERAL INDEX

847

Brae Glen Moir, ii. 543.

Bne Glen Tnrretan, ii. 538.

Brae Glen Urchay, ii. 536, 564, 565,

570.
Brae Loch Lyon, ii. 596, 597.
Brae Lochy, ii. 536.
Brae Lyon, ii. 536, 563.
Brae Mar» ii. 22,. 36, 241, 250, 435,

^573.594. ..

Brae Murray, \u 434.

Braemore, i. 163, 165.

Braenaheglish, i. 165.

Braerathy, i. 187.

Brae Stra Charroun, ii. 547.

Prae Stra Okell, ii. 545, 546.

Brae Urcbadyn, ii. 524, 548, 550.

Brae Urchay, ii. 536.

Brae Vadenoch, ii. 57^.

Brasadill. See Bracadil.

Branan castle, i. 209, 210.

Brahaipoirt, ii. 583.

Braickie, i. 276.

Braid, iL 618.

Braidgairhill, iii. 166.

Braidhaugh, iiL 146.

Braid house, iii. 119.

Braidlaw, iii. 141.

Braidlie, ii. 589.

Braidmeadows, i. 314, 359, 363; iii.

140, 165.
Braids-Craigs, iii. 17.
Braiggarie, ii. 184, 532.
Brakenside, i* 367.
Brakky. See Brace.
Bralandknow, i. 36.
Bralongol, iL 554.
Bramoir. See'DTumoir.
Braneshoeill, ii. 581.
Branksholme, iii. 137, 157.
Braranbill,i. 190.
Brathie, i. 308.

Bray, Easter and Wester, i. 332.
Brayhairport, ii. 182, 183, 531, 532.
Breachat, iiL loi.
Breakenwhat, i. 370.
Breandam, L 339.
Breas of Tomads, i. 103.
Brebsterdgran, iii. 83.
Brecachie, ii. 576.
Brechin, L 107, 265, 372, 273; ii.

?i-23, 37-40; iiL 244.
castle,. L 274; iL 40; iiL

247.

battle of, L 81.

Brecklach, iL 541.

Breda, L 21 ft.

Bredsbaw, iiL 175.

Breeisgill, i. 194.

Breich, ii. 615, 616; iii. 1 16, 117.

Breid Albane, ii. 358, S^SS^Sf 593.

598. 599.
Brelyne, i. 107.
Brenag river, i, 220 : ii. 556.
Brennacha^lly, iL 566.
Brennow, iL 563.
Breokill castle, ii. 532.
Breaaay, iii. 249.

Sound, iiL 252, 253.

Bretill, ii. 222.

Breur, ii. 600. -- -

Brevinetoun, ii. 4J ; iii. 247.

Bride illand, iL 189 ; iiL 272.

Brides well, L 30.

Bridgeford, L 257, 258, 265.

Bridge (or Brig) of Allan, L 311.

of Cluden, iL 605. - -

of Dee, ii. 473. 473. 483-

of Don, ii. 490.

of Doun, iL 612.

of Drumfreis, iL 605.

of Dunskarr, iL 605.

of Dye, L 260.

of Earn, L 116, 124, 127; iL

594,595- . , ,

of Feuch, I. 260, 261.

of Forse, L 184.

of Spittelbum, i. 26a

Bridgend, L 179; iL 10, 19, 585.
Bridgetoun, i. 264 ; ii. 26.
Briges, iii. 116.
Brighouse, ii. 589 ; iiL 145.
Brightancraig, i. 322.
Brims, L 173.
Brinie, i. 1,3, 12.
Brisbane of Bamhill, ii. 208.

of Bishoptoun, iL 204.

Broadgill, i. 369.

Broad Hill, ii. 490.

Broadkirk, L 371.

Broad land, i. 40, 47, 67.

Broats, i. 372.

Brochaig river, ii. 540.

Brockhills, Easter and Wester, iii. 183.

Brodie, i. 231 ; ii. 432.

laird of, 231, 232, 238.

of Letham, i. 232, 238.

— of Muiresk, i. 92.

Alex., minister of Reay, i. 185.

James, i. 239.

Thomas, in Monayghty, i. 237.

Wm., i. 239.

Broich, i. 351 ; iL 609-611.
Brokebridge, i. 369.
Brokisbum, iiL ill.
Brokupridge, iii. 166.
Brolokit castle, iii. 283.
Bronie burn, i. 427.
Broomage, i. 319. 330-

848

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Broombreas, i. 2S7, 295.
Broomhall, i. 287, 291, 292, 294.
BroomhiU, i. 37, 224, 332 ; iii. 134, 179-
Broomholm, 1. 388, 390.
Broomhouse, iiL 181.
Broomkills, iii. 119.
Broomy Hills, ii. 618.
Broia, ii. 419, 438-440 ; iii. 100, 104.
Brotheitoun, i. 264; ii. 616; iii. 117,

176.
— ^ lord, iii. 55, 56.
Brothock, river, ii. 23, 45.
Broubtter. See Brabster.
Broagh of Birsa, i. 141.
BroughtoD, ii. 82, 84, 618; iii. 129,

isi» 155 ». 156.

— ^ laird of, ii. 58.
Broughtonhall, iii. IJI.
Broughton Shiells, iii. 151.
Broughty, i. 310.

— castle, ii. 32.
Broun Carrick hill, ii. 5.
Broanckhursl, Arthur van, gold miner,

iiL 39, 40.
Brounrig, iii. 204.
Brounsbank, iii. 183.
Brour in Garry, ii. 000.
Browen, i. 157.
Browlyn hill, ii. 551, 552.

— water, ii. 552.
Brown of Finmount, iii. 14.
^— of Thomidikes, iii. 179.

— ^ Adam, minister of Kilpatrick, i.

398.

David, minister of Eassie, i. 278.

Brownhill, i. 79 ; ii. 14.
Broxmouth, iii. 114.
Brubster. See Brabster.
Bruce, Alex., of Kennet, i. 307.

David, minister of Olrigg, i. 175.

Henrv, of Clackmannan, i. 307.

sir John, i. 292.

Laurence, iii. 252.

lady Margaret, iii. 58.

Marjory, ii. 203.

Robert, ii. 8.

— first earl of Annandale, i.

307.

sir William, of Stenhouse, i. 330.

castle, i. 315, 328.

Brucehaugh, i. 114.
Bnicetoun, i. 112, 114.
Bruchvig, ii. 584. 1

Bruckland, i. 62.
Bruckley, i. 44, 61.
Brumbeg, ii. 557.
Brumoir, ii. 554, 557.
Brun, i. 2X n,
Brunchels, ii. 209.

Brundestot, ii. 584.

Brunstone, L 37, 301 ; ii. 12, 20, 585,
619; iii. 12a

Bnmtfeild of Nether Mains, iii. 178.

Bruntoun house, i. 299.

Bruntsfield, ii. 618; iii. 119.

Brux house, i. 30.

Bruxie, i. 44, 63, 65.

Bruyok bum, iu 5jo.

Bryans, ii. 6x9; iii. 121.

Bryden, William, town clerk of Sel-
kirk, i. 364-365-

Brydes isle. See Bride.

Bryland, iii 149.

Buccleuch, Easter and Wester, iiL 166.

lairds of, iiL 1 6a

Buchaam, i. 20.

Buchable, iL 61 1.

Buchagla, iiL 290.

Buchan (Buquhann), i. 43 ; ii. 235, 239,
240, 249, 250, 251, 256, 258, 259,
265, 266, 312, 360, 422. 432f 604,
609 ; an account of, iii. 223 ; de-
cription of, by Garden of Troup,
iL xxix, 133 ; description of, by
Alexander Hepburn, L 38.

— colonel, of Cambulg, L 40.

earl of, L 340; iL 33, 50; iii.

226.

earls of, i, 50 ; ii. 233. 235, 237 ;

iii. 227.

James, of Auchmaooy, L 43.

John Comyn, earl of, iL 240,

259.

Rob., L 108.

William, earl of, L 63 ; iL 257.

Buchanan (Buquhannan), iL 193, 197,
581, 605 ; castle, 581, 605 ; descrip-
tion of the parish, L 344.

lairds of, i. 337.

ofLeny, L 133.

of Little Croy, i. 349.

of Moss, i. 349.

Andrew, of Drumhead, ii. 198.

Archibald, of Balfuning, L 348.

— of Drummikill, i. 348, 352 ;

ii. 200.

Arthur, of Sound, iii. 4.

Colin, of Leny, L 336.

David, ii. xxhi, xxiv, xxxvii ; his

description of Edinburgh, ii. xlvii.

Edward, of Spitell, 1. 348.

Francis, of Ampryor, L 336, 344,

351.

George, of Ballachrum, i. 349.

of Blairlusk, i. 352.

i. 349 ; ii. xvi. 200, 1580.

James, of Achlessie, i. 338.

of Cramanan, i. 35a

GENERAL INDEX

Buchanan, James, of Easter Catter, i.

353-

sir John, of that ilk, ii. 197.

John, of Achniven, i. 349.

of Duchlash, i. 348.

of Easter Ballat, i. 348.

of Over Gartincaber, L 344.

of West Torry, i. 339.

writer in Edinburgh, i. 344.

Moses, of Glens, i. 350,

Patrick, of Wester Ballat, L 348.

Walter, of Bowhan, i. 349.

of Kemoch, i. 336.

William, of Auchmar, i. 345.

of Craigivem, i. 348.

of Garbeth, i. 349.

Buchanans of Moss, ii. 200.

Buchan Ness (Buchannes), i. 70, 71 ;

ii. 230, 237, 250, 256, 257, 306, 312,

360, 413, 553.
Buchans of Saok, ii. 238.
Bucharn, i. 36.
Buchat, L 21, 22, 27.
Bucholly, iL 23S.
Buchraigie, i. 48, 74 ; ii. 234.
Buck, i. 26, 30, 33, 34 ; ii. 234.
Buck of the Cabrach, i. 12.
Bucket burn, ii. 243, 262.
Bucketat, i. 27.
Buckholm, iii. 162.
Buckie burn, i. 335.
Bucklyvie, i. 351.
Bucnock, i. 412.
Budded, ii. 557.
Buddergask. See Buttercasque.
Budge, i. 230.

James, of Toftingall, i. 179.

family, iii. 87.

Bup;e castle, iii. 13a

Buia, ii. 222.

Bulg burn, ii. 230, 253.

Bulladorn, ii. 595.

BuUarsbuchan, i. 98, 99 ; iii. 227.

BuUen Moss, i. 317.

BuUoch-m^ll, ii. 587.

Bulmer, sir Bewis, iii. xviii ; obtains

permission to search for gold and

silver, 40-51.
Bunchrew bum, ii. 549, 550.
Bunkell, iii. 182.,
Bunniach or Murvin, i. 21, 22, 24.
Buntein, John, of Ardoch, ii. 198.

Robert, of Mildevin, ii. 198.

Bunteins of Ardoch, ii. 198.

Bunzeon, i. 125.

Burden of Feddall, i. 130.

James, minister of Muthill, i. 133.

Burdsbank, i. 72.
Burghead, ii. 4, 33.

Burgie, i. 231,232; ii. 432.
Burleigh, lord, i. 296 ; ii. 406.
Bumbank, i. 339; ii. 611.
Bumbrae, iii. 152.
Burncastle, iii. 175.
Bumdow, i. 343.
Burnet of Elrick, i. 85.

of Leyes, i. 250 ; iii. 24a

Alex., archbishop of St. Andrews,

iiL 150.

sir Alex., of Craigmyles, i. 103.

sir Alex. , of Leyes, i. 254-

Robert, lawyer, iL 473,

baron Thomas, ii. 242, 261.

Thomas, physician, ii. 474.

Wm., of Barnes, iii. 150.

of Camphield, i. 104.

Burnetland, iii. 151.
Burnhead, i. 3x8; iii. 150.
Burnhouse, i. 332.
Burnhouses, iii. 181.
Bums ferry, i. 325, 326.

mill, iii. 147.

Burnsworkhill, i. 385.

Bums^de, i. 86, 236.

Burntisland (Brunt-yland), ii. 405 ; iiL

17.
Burnt kirk, L 79.
Burray, iiL 312.
Burrough, ii. 583.
Burro wfield, L 273.
Burro whead, ii. 129.
Busby, iL 85.

Bute (Buitt), iL 592 ; iii. 264.
Buthlaw, i. 45, 69, 70.
Buthquhain, i. 38, 42.
Butle, L 395; iL 131.
Butter, price of, i. 248.
Butter of Gormoch, iL 572 ; iiL 222.
Buttercasque, L 3x3 ; ii. 608.
Butterdean, iii. 183.
Buxburn, L 99.
Buya Beg, iii. 288, 298.

Moir, iii. 285, 288, 298.

Buyans well, L 25.
Byrecleuch, iii. 181.
Byres, i. 376 ; iiL x 14.
Byrewalls, iii. 177.
Byth, L 41, 42.

Cabrach, i. 19, 25, 27, 28, 32, 33, 79,

87, 88, 245 : ii. 234, 249. 255.
Cachray, ii. 567.
Cackmoor, iii. 121.
Cacrabank, iii. 166.
Cadan, Jacques de, iiL 259.
Cadell castle, iL 557.

family, iii. 87.

loch, iii. 84.

S60

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Cadenlie, iii. 164.

Cadcr, ii. 579.

Cadgill, i. 393.

CadsoiU or Cftdfield, 11. 185, 533.

Caerdenn, ii. 609, 610.

Caf river, ii. 590,591.

Caile<vie, ii. 568.

Cailichat, L 338.

DdUach na bii, ii. 567.

Cailuementh, i. 428.

Caimscurry, ii 547.

Cairn or Came, i. 285, 298 ; ii. 29, 617.

Caimbo, ii 137.

Caimbain, iL ^62.

Caimborrow, 1. 82 ; ii. 233.

Caimbrogie, i. 98.

Caimbulg, i. 40, 47. 53i 7^ ; "• 23^-

Caimbulgheads, i. 55.

Caimbum, iii. 146.

Caimcorse, iii. 162.

Cairocroce, Patrick, ii. 26.

Caimes, i. 40, 68.

Caimiield, iL 77.

Cainigall, i. 45.

Cairngorm (Kaime Gorum), iii. 242.

Odmhill, i. 86; ii. 616 ; iii. 1 17, 141-

Caimie, i. 82, 88, 275.

lochs, iii. 221.

Cairn of Mount, i. lox, 107, 260, 268.

Cairns, iii. 1x8.

muir, i. 55, 56, 396, 408 ; ii. 66-

68, 112; iii. 145*
Cairntowne, i. 75. ^75 J "• 45-
Caitburn, iii. 56.
Caithness (Catnes), ii. 3". 359. 415.

417, 420-425, 433. 437. 440, 559 ; iii.

q6 ; derivation, iii. 98 ; description

of, iL 412, 421 ; iiL 82.

countess of, L 171.

earls of, i. 152, 159, 170, 171.

176, 184 ; ii. 406, 412, 413. 423.

Alexander, earl of, i. 171.

Archibald, bishop of, iiL 58.

George, earl of, iii. 85, 87.

Gilbert, bishop of, iL 439, 442 ;

iii. 58.

John, earl of, iiL 85, 86.

Cakemuir, ii. 620.

Calchaven wood, ii. 612.

Caldam, i. 262.

Cald chappel water, iii. 132.

Calder, i. 222, 227 ; iL 615, 622 ; iii.

116, 117. 123; castle, iL 615, 616,

620 ; palace, iii. 1 22.

description of the parish, i. 224.

laird of, iL 152, 153, 515.

Alex., of Archangaill, i. 179.

Hutcheon, of Aswanlie, L 81, 88.

John, minister of Calder, i. 226.

Calder, William, of Lynager, i. 179.

Calder Bridge, i. 423.

Calderclare, ii. 622; iiL 123.

Calderhall, ii. 616 ; iiL 56, 117.

Caldermoor, iL 614; iiL 115, 141, 154.

Calder moss, iiL 133.

Calder water, i. 414, 415, 417. 41^

421.
Calderwood, iL 616 ; iiL 134.
Caldhame, i. 269.
Caldnairt, iL 566.
Caldons, i. 402.
Caldra, iiL 181.
Caldsheil loch, iiL 137.
Caldshiells, iii. 175.
Caldshoulders, iii. 152.
Caldstaneslap, iii. 145.
Caldwell, ii. 209 ; iii. 127.

of Glanderstoun, ii. 208.

Caldwellsof that ilk, iL 209.

Calender, Edward, L 308.

Cal£L, iii. 279.

Caliby, iii. 124.

Callait, iii. 151.

Callander, i. 133, 321, 322, 334, 335,

344 ; iL 610-612 ; iiL 567, 611.

loch, L 325.

Callidor river, i. xxiv, 219, 221.

Callingad, i. 353.

Callins, iii. X48.

Calmellie, i. 31.

Calmonell, i. 401 ; ii. 2, 15, 18, 20, 69,

75, 88-90, no, 112, 114.
Calmoor loch, iiL 136.
Calton Hill or N^l's Rock, ii. 622,

624.
Calrievaar, L 31, 34.
Cambus, i. yA*

castle, iiL 282.

Cambushinie, i. 314.
Cambusmore tower, i. 338.
Cambusnethan, i. 415, 420.
Cambuswallace, L 338 ; ii. 612.
Camculter, L J5.
Camden, William, ii. 328.
Camelekie bum, iii. 134.
Camelon, i. 322 ; iii. 124.
Cameron, Allane, of Lochyeld, ii. 163.

family, iL 159W, 160 ».

Cameron Bridge, i. 299, 30a
Camerotmuir, ii. 67.
Cammer-Raddach, ii. 602, 603.
Cammey bum, ii. 612.
Cammey-Be^, iL 612.
Cammeycurrie, iL 569.
Cammey Moir, ii. 567, 612.
Camnethan, iii. 135.
Camochyle, i. 350.
Campbell of Ardginglais, iL 200, 511.

GENERAL INDEX

361

Campbell of Ardna-Murchen, iL 521.

of Balgersho, iii. 222.

of Burnbanky i, 339.

■: of Calder, i. 225.

of Edinkip, i. 335.

1 of Glenitrchie, iii. 85.

of Ixmeraw, ii. 152, 515.

ofLorneyii. 155. .

— — of Torrich, i. 224.

Alexr.y of Carsgounie, ii. 28.

colonel Alex. , of Fonab, i. 335.

sir Archibald, of Clunies, L 224.

Archibald, carl of Areyll. See

Argyll,
Colin, of Blythswood, i. 424 ; ii.

203.

Daniel, of Shawfield, i. 419.

sir James, of Ardkinglas, i. 352.

sir John, of Ardkinglass, iL 199.

John, of Calder, i. 224, 227.

— ^ of East Torry, i. 338.

of Succoth, iL 195.

Ncill, bishop of Argyll, ii. 149.

Patrick, of Munzie, 1, 1 39.

Robert, writer, iL 194.

-1 sir Thomas, of Calder, L 231.

Thomas, minister of Minigaff, i.

408.
^— William, of Succoth, ii. 195, 200.

minister of Olri^, i. 175.

— minister in Lundie, ii. 34.

minister in Menmnir, ii. 38.

weaver in Glenluce, ii. 89.

Campbelltoan, i. 224.

Campbridge, i. 422.

Campe water, iiL 56, 132.

Camphield, i. 104.

Campsasken, ii. 198.

Campsie, L 326, 350 ; iL 572, 582.

Campster, i. 157, 179.

Campston, i. 31, 146.

Camsaill, ii. 200.

Camsbarron, i. 316.

Camustone, iL 49.

Candida Casa, iL 3I7», 3i9. 34^, 355«

Candie, iii. 151.

Cangler, L 315.

Can Loch Bniyne. See Keanloch.

Canlods Dowich, iL 543, 544.

Canloch-Owrin. See Kean Locherin.

Canna, ii. 176, 177, 528, 529; iii.

281.
Cannesbay, L xxiv, 151, 170, 176.
Cannibalism of the Scots, ii. 385.
Cannoly, L 366.
Cannonl, iL 601.
Canniis, ii. 222.
Canny bnm, L 102-104, 260, 428 ; ii.

243. a6i, 553.

Canonbie (Cannobie), L 387, 388, 390 ;
iiL 136.

Canongate, iL 621, 628.

Canonmills, iL 617 ; iiL 118.

Cant, Aodrew, i. 52.

Canterbury, Laurence, bishop of, ii.
315.

Canterland, L 264.

Cantra, L 225, 226.

Cantyre, ii. 155, 186, 187, 188, 358,
S^Zy 5^7» 537; memorandum for,
526.

Canyquins bum, i. 429.

Caol loch, i. 183.

Cape Wrath, i. 192.

Caplane, iii. 139.

Caplaw, iii. 139.

Caploch, ii. 549.

Cappach, IL 161.

Capringtoun, L 413, 589.

Cara illand, iL 188 ; iii. 265, 266.

Carathie, iL 594.

Caray. See Cara.

Carberry, iL 619 ; iiL 121.

Carbisdaill, iL 547, 569.

Carbit water, ii. 23, 26, 27.

Carbrock, i. 315.

Carbuddo, iL 47.

Carcaig, i. 187.

Carcarth water, ii. 591.

Carchell, ii. 609.

Cardenn, ii. 605 ; iii. 152.

Cardonall, iL 201 ; iii. 127.

Cardross, ii. 193, 604, 609.

castle, i. 340; iL no.

lord, i. 340.

Cards hill, i. 89.
Care ferry, L 298.

water, ii. 209.

Careynesse, iiL 290.
Carfrae, iii. 174.
Cargannok, ii. 604.
Cargarf castle, i. 21.
Cargill, L 141, 279, 372.

James, iL 474,477-

Carholme, i. 381.

Carigow, ii. 602.

Carlaouk, iii. 237.

Carlaverock, ii. 56 ; iii. 196.

Carleton, ii. 20.

Carlings pooll, ii. 595.

Carlingwork, L 395-397.

Carlock, ii. 6.

Carlops, iiL 142.

Carlosk, ii. 20.

Carltoun, ii. 586.

Carmichael, iii. 133, 134.

Carmylie, i. 275 ; ii. 44, 47 ; iii. 247.

Carnachu, i. 188.

352

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Caniasrie castle, ii. 148, 149, 513.
Cambree, L 418.
Carncaim burn, i. 78.
Camebroo, iiL 134.
Came Derg, iL 576.
Carnedruym, ii. 534, 563, 565.
Carnegy, lord, ii. 22.

of Balmachie, ii. 49.

of Balnamoone, ii. 38.

of Newgait, ii. 50.

of Southes<^ue, ii. 46.

sir Alexr., li. 38 ; iii. 246.

James, of Craigs, ii. 41.

sir John, ii. 42.

John, of Cookstoune, il 40.

provost of Forfar, ii. 25.

minister in Aberbrothock,

ii. 47.

minister in Barrie, ii. 50.

Carnel, ii. 589.
Cametaboll, iii. 133, 135.
Cameteldar hill, iii. 132.
Camgall, L 70.
Camgully, i. 100.
Camhill, ii. 590, 591.
Camicfaulen, i. 221.
Camie-whing loch, i. 54.
Cammothem, iii. 237.
Camock, i. 287, 290, 315.
Camousie, L 77.
Carnowaig, ii. 568.
Camustie, ii. 49.
Camwath, ii. 616; iii. 1 34, 135.

lord, iii. 199.

Carphin, i. 421 ; iii. 134.

Carpou, i. 118, 304.

Carraldston, i. 274 ; ii. 37, 38 ; iii. 246.

Carrath, Alexander, iii. 261.

Carrick, ii. 53-72, 75, 88-90, no, 112,

114, 129, 356, 585-S87; description

of, by Abercrummie, ii. xxvi, i.
— — earl of, iii. 4.

Skeath, iii. 265.

Carrington, i. 373 ; ii. 619, 622 ; iii.

120.
Carristoun, i. 285 ; ii. 368 ; iii. 125.
Carritie water, ii. 30.
Carronbridge, i. 326.
Carronglen, i. 332.
Carron river, i. 209, 247-251, 319-329,

333 5 ii- 370, 414, 417, 419. 58i»

60Z ; iii. 201, 207, 236.
Carsbank, ii. 28.
Carsebonie, i. 316.
Carse of Gowrie. See Gowrie,
Carsfiiirn, i. 401 ; ii. 2, 61-63, 68-71,

108, 126, 130, 131 ; iii. I97» 205.
Carsgounie, ii. 28.
Cirsillan, ii. 610.

Carsland, ii. 591.

Carstairs loch, iii. 135.

Carstreoche, iii. 129.

Carswell, John, bishop of Argyle, iL

148. 149. 513-
Cart river, iii. 213. See also White Cart.
Carterhanch, iii. 166.
Cartleferrie, ilL 121.
Cartrop, iii. 153.
Carvie, i. 20, 21.
Caschill, L 346 ; ii. 536.
Caselluschall, iii. 56.
Cashill na clack moir, ii. 564.
Caslev river, i. 201, 202 ; ii. 419, 437,

438; iii. loa
Casley Kean loch, iii. 97.
Cassillis, earl of, iL 3-20, 75, 91, 122.
Cassils, iL 58J, 606.
Cassincany, ii. 129.
CastelCheilchoime. Sm Cheul-Cheum.
Castel Chewles-Akin, iL 583.
Castell Megarie, ii. 167, 521.
Castell Ruy, iL 555.
Castle Barchaldein, ii. 154.
Castle Campbell, i. 136, 328 ; iii. 16.
Castlecury, L 318, 321, 322, 325 ; iL

368 ; iii. 124, 125.
Castle Chammey, ii. 583.
Castlecraigness, ii. 15a
Castle Crawliird Jhon, ii. 587.
Castledikes, iii. 186, 193.
Castle Douan, iii. 263.
Castle Dune, iL 585.
Castlefaime water, iL 61 ; iiL 205.
Castlefield, L 336.
Castle Forbes, i. 1-3, 12-15, J9f ^»

28, 33, 34.
Castle Gordon, i. 230, 246, 310.
Castle Grant, i. 230.
Castlehaven, L 215.
Castlehill, i. 178, 317, 3^8 ; iL 25, 203,

iiL 134, 201.

laird of, i. 175.

Castle Kennedy, iL 91, 122; iiL

129.
Castlelaw, i. 116, 120, 125 ; iiL 178.
Castle Leslie, ii. 406.
Castlemeam, i. 200.
Castlemilk, i. 369.
Castle N'agair, i. 202, 214; iL 166,

441, 520 ; iiL 105.
Castle of Kees, L 153.
Castle of the Chapel, iL 92.
Castle Paincors, ii. 591.
Castle Sempill, iii. 126, 127.
Castle Sinclair, iL 359, 413, 423; iii.
1 86.
I Castle Stewart, iL 76, no, 309, 431;

iii. 129.

GENERAL INDEX

Castleton, i. 268, 270, 278, 388, 393 ;

u. 241, 260, 554, 594; iii. 134.
Castletoun Green hill, ii. 590.
Castletounkirk, iii. 136.
Castle Wig, ii. 84.
Castlewood, iii. 135.
Catalin, i. 80.
Catelaig, ii. 576.
Caterline, iii. 232 ; description of, i.

Cathcart, 1. 411 ; ii. 201, 209 ; iii. 126,

127, 217.

lord, i. 411.

of Carbistoun, i. 412.

of Carletowne, ii. 12.

Cathkine (Cathquanne), iii. 133, 134.

Cathrie, m. 180.

Catislake, iii. 139.

Catlane, i. 373.

Catlin bum, ii. 578.

Gitslack, iii. 165.

Catter, Easter and Wester, i. 350, 353.

Cattey, iii. 57.

Cattey-ness. See Caithness.

Cattle disease in Caithness, iii. 12.

price of, in Shetland, iii. 63.

Canlsay port, i. 108.

Caumfoord, ii. 105.

Causea, i. 233.

Caatfield, i. 239.

Cavay, ii. 213; iii. xxiv, 311.

Cave of Smoa, i. 195.

Caverhill, iii. 150.

Cavers, i. 393; iii. 137, 158, 162.

Caverton, iii. 158.

Cavile or Gavile, i. 287, 290, 294

298.
Caylies moor, iii. 55, 56.
Ceandacraig, i. 20.
Ceanncaill, i. 188.
Ceath, i. 20.
Cergo, L 396.
Cesford, iii. 137, 159.

lairds of, iii. 160.

Cessnock, iL 589, 590.

Chader well, 214.

Chafla water, ii. 546.

Chaille-ross, ii. 599.

Chalmers of Drumlochy, ii. 572.

William, minister of Muthill, i.

333-
military officer of Aberdeen, ii.

474-

minister in Glass parish, i. 88.

Chamberlain, David, of Aberdeen, ii.

477.
Chambers, David, iii. 256.
Chambrich, ii. 538.
Chammer castle, ii. 531.

VOL. II r.

Chanonry, i. 205, 206, 208, 231 ; ii.

^4i5»S54.

Channeness, li. 554.

Chapman, James, minister of Calder,

i. 226.
Chappel, i. 82, 83 ; ii. 584, S97» 606 ;

iii. 129, 137, 175.

of Findon, i. 108.

of Garioch, i. 5-9, 94.

Chappelgill, iii. 152.
Chappelhill, iii. 151.
Chappellaroch, i. 348.
Chappelton, i. 36, 86, 426 ; ii. 200.

of Glenkindie, i. 30.

Charchio, ii. 534.

Charles i., birthplace of, i. 289, 290.

Charlestown, i. 105.

Charlnay, ii. 184, 189, 532.

Charterdeanfoord, iii. 180.

Charterhall, iii. 180.

Charterhaugh, iii. 139.

Charteris, colonel, of Ampsfield, i.

377.

sir John, of Ampfeild, iii. 206.

Charters, ii. 618.

Chash Ylen, ii. 602.

Chassil water, ii. 417, 418, 546, 569.

Chastell Inche Mourin, ii. 602.

Chaymie lUand, ii. 191.

Cheese well, i. 360, 364.

Cheilchome castle. See Cheul-

Cheurn.
Cherries braes, iii. 56.
Cherry trees, iii. 162.
Chesters, iii. 162, 180.
Cheul-Cheurn castle, ii. 147, 512, 536,

537.
Chewles, ii. 547, 583.
Chewles-Akin, ii. 583.
Chewles Akir castle, ii. 542.
Chewlescung, ii. 414, 427, 545, 560-

562, 600.
Chewles Re, ii. 543, 544.
Cheyn, barons, ii. 230.

of Kaithen, i. 79.

Henry, bishop of Aberdeen, ii.

486, 490.
Childaig, ii. 539, 542, 543.
Chilio, iii. 10 1.
Chinnell water, iii. 203, 207.
Chireaig river, ii. 414, 545, 600.
Chirnside, iii. 173, 182, 184.
Chisholme of Straglass, ii. 553.

James, iii. 148.

minister of Ewis, i. 394.

Chlewich, ii. 535-
Chluony, ii. 539, 544, 549-
Chluyn, ii. 574.
Choislader, ii. 583,

z

364

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Chombrich Abricht ii. 538.
Chombrich Mulniy, ii. 538.
Choye, iii. 5.
Cbrearache, iii. 270.
Chreicen, ii. 564.
Christ's Fair, L 15.

Kirk, i. 15.

Chroshemer, ii. 584.
Chrunachan, ii. 600.
Chryton, professor of Greek at Paris,

ill. 2^9.
Chulachie, ii. 550.
Chulctyr, ii. 557.
Chaltin river, u. 517.
Church fabrics, i. xv ; ii. Ui ; iii. xxii.
Cinaber, iii. 17.
Cinisaid, i. 191.
Cistercian monks, ii. 21.
Clachan Airdoch, ii. 609.
Clachan-can-Gherloch, ii. 539.
Clachan Diseirt, ii. 147, 513, 536-538.

in Foyeach, ii- ^ii«

Kean Lochew, li. 539.

of Kilpatrick, ii. 196.

Loch Bra^e, ii. 541.

Mulniy, ii. 548.

Wraid, ii. 566.

Clach-Ellan, iii. IQ2.
Clach-na-bane, i. 261.
Clachnan Loang, i. 341.
Clachwy, ii. 537.
Clackmannan, i. 306 ; ii. 402.
Clackriah, i. 63.
Claddigh, ii. 184, 532.
Claddow house, ii. 116.
Clairdon,i. I7i» I73*
Claisneach, i. 193, 195.
Clan Cameron, ii. 159, 160, 163, 519,
520.

Chattan, ii. 309, 434.

Donald, ii. 157, 181, 186, 189,

19^ 517* 530; "J- 260, 261, 265,
290.

Eanmore, iii. 261.

Ban Murguenich, ii. 521.

Fenayne, ii. 182.

Gothofreid, iii. 260,

Gunn, ii. 442.

Lean, ii. 164, 166, 175, 191,

521,

Leod, of Harie, ii. 182.

MacDufFscroce, ii. 407.

-, — MacKenneth, ii. 414.

Maister, ii. 163, 520.

Neill, of Barray, ii. 179, 529.

Phadrike, iii. 243.

Ragnald, iii. 261.

Ronald, ii. 177. 181, 529, 539.

Somerle, iii. 261.

Clan Toirgill, iL 185.

Toirmoid, ii. 185.

vick Gillemichaell, ii. 156, 517.

Clans of the Isles, iiL 260.

Clarebad, iii. 182.

Clarkstone, i. 320, 322.

Clarv, iL 76, 85.

Clasherrae or Clashinrae, L 23, 31.

Clashinga, ii. 608.

Clashshant, iL 95, 98, 126.

Clatchar, i. 305.

Clatt, L 2, 3. II, 13, 15, 3a» 34, 35?

ii. 244, 262.
Clavagc, L 120.
Claverhill, iii. 151.
Claverhouse, iL 33.

laird of, iL 27, 31, 33, 5a

Clawghries, iii. 209.

Clayhills of Innergourie, ii. 31, 33.

Claypool, sir John, iiL xix, 47.

Claypots, iL 31.

Clea, L 180.

Cleghom, iii. 134, 135.

Cleland house, i. 42a

of that ilk, i. 420.

of Fasean, i. 219.

sir }ames, of Monkland, L 419.

captain William, L 420.

Cleland toun, iii. 134.

Clencaird, ii. 585.

Clentredwale, iiL 105.

Cleray, iii. 129.

Clerk, Alex., minister of Lathron, L

169.
Clerkingtoune, i. 377 ; iL 619 ; iii.

114, 12a
Cleuch, iiL 151.
Cleugh-boum, L 141.
Cleughheads, i. 371.
Clibrig, i. 188.
Cliesh, i. 290, 291, 302.
Cliftonhall, iii. 1 16.
Cliftoun, iii. 116.
Clithimore, i. 141.
Cloas, ii. 589.

Cloberhill, ii. 195, 579, 580.
Clobum loch, iii. 140.

water, iiL 133.

ClochhoU, iL 155, 516.
Clochnaben, iiL xxiv, 237.
Clochstane, iL 580, 592, 594; iii. 214.
Cloncaird, ii. 11, 19.
Cloneyard, iL 98 ; iii. 129.
Closeburn, iL 125, 127, 605; iiL 192,

208-210.
Cloth fair at Wigton, ii. 73.
Cloubakky, iL 55a
Cloughmaugh, i. 86.
Clova, i. 30, 281 ; ii. 25, 29 ; iii 16.

GENERAL INDEX

365

Clowdans, ii. 1^5.
Clubs-govil, i. 85.
Cluden water, 11. 55, 56, 129-132; iii.

196.
Clugstone, iL 117.
Cluith river, ii. 314.
Clunies, i. 224, 225.
Patrick, minister of Wick, i. 162 ;

iii. 12.
Cluny, i. 96, 97, "S. 304; "• 572.

599; Jfaffray's description of the

parish, i. 94.
— castle, ii. 244, 263.

loch, ii. 549, 572 ; iii. 222.

water, ii. 571.

Clyde, the, i. 414-416, 423, 424 ; ii. 2,

192-208, 313, 329, 343» 371-381,

424, 579, 592, 594; iii. "5, 131,

163,213,214.
Clydsdaill, ii. 192, 193, 200, 201, 356,

589.
Clyne, ii. 438; iii. 98, 104-106.

castle, ii. 420, 441.

Clysh, i. 287.
Clyth,i. 163, 167.
Clythness, iii. 8^.
Cnoc-na-ba-reavich, i. 182.
Coats, ii. 619; iii. 118, 119, 121.
Cobb, John, minister of Stronza, i.

146.
Cobir-nuiskeach, i. 194.
Cobron, Alex, de, archbishop of

Boarges, iii. 259.
Cochelvy, ii. ^90.
Cochladiin, ii. 608.
Cochnay, ii. 196, 200, 580.
Cochrane, ii. 202, 205 ; iii. 127.
— - Thomas, of Killmaronock, i. 353.

Wm., of Kilmaranock, ii. 197.

Cockbum, iii. 181.

of Harperdeen, iii. 1 14.

of Henderland, iii. 152.

of Skirline, iii. 151.

sir Archd., of Langtoun, iii. 180.

sir James, of Riselaw, iii. 178,

180.
Cockbumlaw, iii. 181, 184.
Cockbumspath, iii. 114, 171, 173, '83,

184
Cockeny, iii. III.
Cockieland, iii. 153.
Cocklarachie, i. 33, 36, 86.
Cocklaw, iii. 136, 137.
Cockpen, i. 373; ii. 619, 622; iii«

120.
Cockplay, i. 313 ; ii. 608.
CockjKX)!, i. 365, 370; iii. 193.
Codrain, i. 3^.
•Cocn river, ii. 517.

Cog^ch, ii. 311.

Cogill, i. 179.

Cognashy, ii. 5^8.

Cogy-lcwrach, li. 558.

Cogy Scallan, ii. 558.

Cogy Shy, u. 559.

Cogywam, ii. 558.

Coids river, ii. 428.

Coienafeam, i. 228.

Coilsfeild, i. 411.

Coirrabrea^gan, ii. 192.

Colaine, laird of, ii. 7, 9.

Colame, ii. 6.

Coldcoat, iii« 142, 147.

Coldibackie, i. 190.

Coldinghame, iii. 173, 183, 184.

Coldingtoun, iii. 133^

Coldhems, ii. 613.

Coldoch, i. 338; ii. 610, 611.

Coldstane, i. 19, 23, 25, 32, 105.

Coldstream, i. 378 ; iii. 173, 178.

Coldsyde, iii. 183.

Colen, ii. 236.

Colinton, ii. 617 ; iii. 118.

CoU or Colla, ii. 17^, 218, 219, 528.

laird of, ii. 176.

Colktce, i. 141, 279.

Colleonard, i. 48, 76.

Collessie, i. 115, 294, 296, 297, 303,

304.
Collilaw, iii. 174
Collins on high water at Leith, iii.

xiv.
Collinsa (Coluansay), ii. 188, 192 ; iii.

275.
Collinsons of Aberdeen, ii. 474.
Collithie, i. 35, 36.
Colman, ii. 318.
Colmonell, i. 400, 401.
Colquhoun of Luss, ii. 194-200, 603.

sir Alexander, of Luss, ii. 196.

sir Humphray, of Luss, ii. 19^,

199.

Humfray, of Tilyquhyn, ii. 200.

captain tames, ii. 196.

John, of Achintorl^, ii. 196.

sir John, of Luss, li. 195.

John, of Camstroddan, 1. 354.

Colsfeild, ii. 587.

Colstoun, i. 276, 377 ; ii. 45 ; iii. 112,

114.
Coltfield, i. 234.
Coltness (Cultness), iii. 134.
Columba, St., ii. 317 and n,
Columbkill, ii. 519.
Columbus, saint, vault built by, at

Tarbat, i. 215.
Colve wood, iii. 137.
Colvcn, ii. 130..

356

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Colvin, Robert, of Craig Flower, i.

292.
Colyam Cast, ii. ^78.
Combaich, ii. 548.
Combrich, ii. 542, 601.
Combyr, ii. 553.
Comiston, ii. 618; iii. 119, 120.
Comlongan, i. 365, 370, 404, 405, 407.
Commer, i. 347.
Commemald, iii. 124.
Commisher, ii. 47.
Commonhaugh, iii. 146.
Compstone, i. 316, 317.
Comrie, i. 334.

Comyns. See Bachan, earls of.
Con water, i. 343.
CoD-Craige, i. 129.
Coneness, ii. 534.
Congaltoun, i. 378 ; iii. x 14.
Conglen, ii. 187, 520, 527.
Congrain, ii. 198.
Conings isle, iii. 270.
Conna^ river, ii. 414.
Connait burn, ii. 563.
Connan river, i. 210, 212 ; ii. 416, 540,
^ S50-SS3. 601.
Connel Ferry, 11. 151, 153, 154, 514-

^516.553. .
Connie burn, i, 13.
Connigil, i. 183.
Connoble house, i. 420.
Con-Ocra, ii. 542.
Cononsyth, ii. 47 ; iii. 248.
Contan, ii. 541.
Contelait, ii. 577.
Contle, i. 302.
Conton, i. 210.
Contulich, i. 213.

Convent of mendicant friars in Banff,
i. 242 ; convent of white friars, etc.,

243-
Conveth, alias Laurencekirk, i. 267-

270.
Cony ware, ii. 13.
Cook, Patrick, his description of Pit-

sligo, i. 50-
Cooks-Croftj iii. 237.
Cookshill, i. 31.
Cookstoun, i. 274, 277 ; ii. 40, 433 ;

iii. 238.
Coo's Moss, i. 120.
Copefaal, iii. 300.
Copinschaw, iii. 310.
Copland, Patrick, of Aberdeen, ii. 477.
Copper, iii. 55.

mill near Albie, i. 372.

mine at Aithree, iii. 16.

Cor water, iii. 153..
Coral bum, i 21.

Corb, L III, 125.

Corbat of Easter Arboll, 121$.

Corben, iiL 266.

Corbet, iii. 137.

Corbred Gald, king of Scotland, iiL 98.

Corchinnan, L 30, 33.

Cordach, i. 104.

Corehead, i. 366.

Core hill, ii. 609.

Corey, i. 15.

Corhouse, iii. 134.

Coridown, i. 36.

Corie water, i. 368.

Coriechuirk, ii. 534.

Corifiiren, i. 189.

Cor-na-goen, ii. 558.

Cornelius, Mr., lapidary, iii. 31.

Comes, ii. 588.

Coraetoune, ii. 612.

Coraikenloch, i. 201.

Corrachrie, i. 25.

Correy, iii. 97.

Corri-chrotter, iii. 97.

Corrien, L 34.

Corsack, i. 396, 398.

Corsbie, i. 413; iii. 175.

Corsdeuch, iii. 139, 166.

Corse, i. 151.

of Jackstoun, i. i.

Corseclayes, ii. 14, 20.

Corsecrook, ii. 89.

Corsell, ii. 590.

Corsemichael, ii. 5355, 59, 60, 63, 68,

71, 108, 109, 122.
Corsewell, ii. 93; iii. 129.
Corsewoodburo, iii. 1x7.
Corsewoodhill, iii. 133.
Corshey, iii. 138.
Corshu, i. 36.
Corskeir illand, ii. 189.
Cors Ker, iii. 272.
Corskleyis, ii. 585.
Corslett, ii. 2CX).
Corslie, iii. 166.

Corss,.Hu^h, minister of Bower, i. 178.
Corssliill, i. 425
Corstorphine, ii. 617, 622 ; iii. xiv, 93,

1x8, I2X, 123.
Corstoun, ii. 616; iii. 117.
Cortachie (Cortaqubie), i. 281, 285; ii.

25, 29.
Cortlefeny, ii. 620.
Corunie, 1. 14.
Cory Altie, ii. 576.
Cory-Arban, ii. 565.
Cory Arduran, ii. 534.
Cory Amisdail Beg, ii. 577.
Cory Arnisdaill Moir, ii. 577.
Cory Awich, ii. 542.

GENERAL INDEX

857

Coryba, ii. 536.

Cory of Balglash, ii. 581,

Corybrekan, iii. 266.

Corybroichbeg, ii. 558, 608.

Corybroichmoir, ii. 558, 608.

Corybuy, ii. 562.

Cory Chailleros, ii. 599.

Cory Chamuchy ii. 535.

Cory-chary, ii. 564.

Cory-checch (Corysheech), ii. 563.

Cory-chercill, ii 596.

Corychouspick, ii. 600.

Cory Chrennich, ii. 599.

Cory-Chrevy, iii 564.

Cory-Clach, ii. 613.

Cory-Cloich, ii. 564.

Cory Ennich, ii. 578.

Coryfoold burn, ii. 612.

Corygaen, ii. 549.

Cory Garraache, iii^ 274.

Corygewrach, ii. 534.

Cory Gherrag, i. 220, 221 ; ii. 535.

Cory-Go wen, ii. 542.

Coryherif, ii. 534.

Cory-hewnan, ii. 563.

Cory Kailden or Hasil Cory, ii. 567.

Cory-Kean Loch, iii. loi.

Corylawer, ii. 599.

Coryloinshick, ii. 564.

Corymony, ii. 550.

Cory-muckie, ii. 564, 599.

Cory na bruick, ii. 599.

Corynaqhrich, ii. 613.

Cory-nachtie ii. 548.

Corynaherroshet, ii. 562.

Corynaluisken, ii. 570.

Cory na naion, ii. 564*

Corynanourisken, ii. 567.

Coryna Sowy, ii. 570.

Cory na Varr, ii. 599.

Cory Owley, ii. 565.

Cory-reochy, ii. 564.

Cory Roy, li. 577.
Cory-verawalt, ii. 564.
Cory-vory, ii. 558.
Cory-Voynlic, ii. 546, 547.
Cory Whoyng, ii. 551.
Cosaig, ii. 543.
Cossbume, ii. 613.
Cosshowgell, iii. 200.
Cossines nouse, ii. 26.
Costerton, ii. 619.

Coul (Cowal, Cowl), i. 23, 25, 31,
105, 213, 286 ; ii. 144, 155, 199, 212,

358.510.517,534,558-
Coul Blair, ii. 558.
Coulchoullie, ii. 544.
Conl-clachy, u. 557.
Couldanknows. Su Cowdenknowes.

Coul Dawich, ii 557.

Could na grock, ii. 582.

Coul Dowell, ii. 555.

Coule in Ard^oure,- ii 164.

Coul Icrach, li. 554.

Coulin-teugle, ii. 566. ..

Coul Ocrach, ii. 555.

Coulsowble, ii. 564.

Coulter, i. 262; iii. 133, 135, 156.

water, iii 133.

Coul Whinnaig, ii. 557.

Coulyard Icrach, ii. 555.

Coulyard Qcrah, ii. 555.

Couper, lord, ii 35, 36.

Couper in Angus, i. 109, 11 1, 277, 279 ;
ii. 594 ; iii. 244, 246.

abbey, ii. 23, 35, 36.

Couper in Fife. See Cupar.

Couper-Grange, ii. 594 ; iii 223.

Courop, iii 148.

Courtloord bridge, i. 287.

Cousland, ii 619 ; iii 121.

Couter. See Coulter.

Coutt's account of the parish of Had-
dington, i 375.

Couttis, Mr., minister of Strickathroe,
ii. 40.

Covan market, ii. 266.

Cove, i 372; ii 9, 21.

Covingtoun, iii 133, 134.

Cowburtie, i. 47.

Cowdenknowes (Couldanknows), iii.

135. 175.

Cowend. i. 395, 397; 11. 54, 56, 58,
59, 71, 108.

Cowgate Port, ii 626.

Cowglen, ii 165.

Cowie, i. 247, 249, 254, 25s, 315; "'•
236,238.

water, i 248, 251, 264 ; iii. 236.

Cowisky, ii. 612.

Cowit, ii. 599.

Cowl. See Coul.

Cowlachy, ii. 558.

Cowlerny, ii. 558.

Cowmes, i. 393.

Cowthrople, iii. 148.

Cowton, i. 254.
' Coxton tower, iii. 130.

Coygach, ii. 414, 545, 547. 600.
, Crabston, i 99.
, Cracchlie, iii. 128.

Cracok, iii. 105.
I Cragan, i. 213.
' Crag-Gewis, ii. 242, 260.
: Craigie, i. 182, 186, 225 ; ii. 546, 569.

Cragie-Wallace, ii 589.
' Crag of Boyn castle, ii. 234, 256.

Cragougovan, iii. 93.

358

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Cragston, ii. 338.
Cragy Beg, iL 5J7.
Cragyburn, i. 367 ; ii. 605.
Cragy Moir, ii. 557.
Cragy vaime, ii. 581, 605,
Craichlaw, iL 88.

— laird of, ii. 112, 113.

Craig, I 2, 33, 373; ii. 554. 589; iii.

114, 137, 227.
castle, ii. 238.

— of Blantrye, L 417 ; iii. 134.
of Boyne, i. 74.

— •— of Inverugie, i. 39.

William, of Dallnair, 1. 348.

Craig-Alvie, iL 573, 574, 578.

Craiganes, iii. 127.

Craigamhall, L 311, 312.

Craig- Auchindore, i. 13.

Craigbakie, i. 123.

Craigbeck, i. 367.

Craig Bernard, ii. 580, 582.

CraigcaflBe, ii. 92 ; iii. 129.

Craigcrokanor, iL 608.

Cratgcrook, iL 420, 441, 617 ; iii. 118.

Craigdaroch, iiL 205.

Craig Davie, i. 266.

Craigdens, i. 40^.

Craigdow loch, li. 4.

Craigellachie (Crage-alaachie, Craig

Elachy), iL 573, 595 ; iii. 240.
Craigellie, i. 40, 47, 68.
Craigencallie, i. 405.
Craigend alias Mitchell, L 316.
Craigends, ii. 206, 207.
Craigengar, ii. 616.
Craigenscore, i. 26.
Craigevy, iii. 236.
Craigflower, i. 292, 294.
Craigforth, i. 315.
Craighall or Ratro, iiL 223.
Craighope water, iiL 139.
Craighouse, iL 554, 618 ; iiL 119. See

also under Craig.
Craigie, i. 264 ; ii. 31.
Craigiefrisch, ii. 36.
Craigievar castle, ii. 244.
Craigingar, iii. 141, 146, 1 50.
Craig- Innerleith, iii. 118.
Craigivem, i. 348.
Craiglaw, iiL 129.
Craigleith, ii. 617.
Craiglockart, iL 618; iii. Z19.
Craiglugh burn, i. 390.
Craigmay, i. 322, 323.
Craig Megevie, ii. 577.
Cia^menessicb, ii. 613.
Craigmillar, ii. 618 ; iii. 120.
Craigmoir of Kalendar, ii. 612.
Craigmyle, i. 102-104.

Craignaboth, i. 168.

Craignachronan, ii. 570.

Craig na en, ii. 607.

Craigna-Maddy, iL 6r3.

Craig Nargatt iiL 128.

Craignawhirr, ii, 535,

Craigneil, ii. 15, ao, 585.

Craigness, iL 150, 186, 513, 514.

Craig Nethan, iii. 134.

Craigorth, iL 610.

Craigour, L 104.

Craig Ow, ii. 574.

Craigrig, iii. 152.

Craigrossie, i. 121, 138.

Craigs, L 140 ; ii. 41.

Craigshean, ii. 19.

Craigskanlay, iii. loi.

Craigstone, i. 42 ; ii. 588.

Craigtoun, i. 184, 186, 425 ; ii. 58a

Craigv'addy, ii. 564.

Craigvain, ii. 535.

Craigylands, i. 367.

Craik, iiL 168.

water, iii. 132.

Craikcross, i. 356; iiL 136, 137.
Craikmoor, i. 356, 357 ; liL 168.
Craikquerrelane, ii. 154, 516.
Crail, iL 402, 404.
Crailing, iii. 136, 137, 162.
Crai^;vorwair, ii. 420.
Cramanan, L 3^0.
Crammalcra^, iii. 141.
Cmmmart, iii. 152.
Cramond, ii. 617, 622 ; iiL 116.

of Ardlair, i. 280.

minister in Feme, ii. 38.

Crandiknow, i. 372.
Crandirth wood, ii. 36.
Cransay, iiL 284.
Cranshawes, iii. 171, 173, 181.
Cranston, i. 373 ; ii. 622.

— family, iiL 161.
Crask-Worwair, ii. 44a
Crathes, i. 259, 428, 429.

— castle, iL 242, 261.
Crathie, L 19; iL 241.
Craton, iii. 236.
Cravie illand, iL 191.
Crawford, iii. 30, 132, 134, 201.
earl of, L 81, no, 113; ii. ax,

38, 50, 406.

of Ardmillan, iL 6.

of Drumsoy, L 412.

of Easter Seatoune, ii. 45.

Hew, of Kilbimy, ii. 195.

of Knightswood, ii. 195.

John, iii. 197, 198.

Laurence, of Kilbimy, iL 195.

dame Margaret, ii. 204.

GExNERAL INDEX

359

Crawford, Tho., of Cartsburn, ii. 204.
captain Thomas, of Jordanhill, ii.

— Thomas, letter from, to sir R.
Sibbald, iii. 7.

— William, minister of Ladykirk,
i. 380.

Crawford-John, ii. 195, 586, 587, 607 ;

iii. 31.
Crawfordland, iL 589.
Crawford- Lindsay, ii. 586 ; iii. 20I.
Crawfords of Cartsburn, ii. 204, 205.
of Crosby, ii. 206.

— of Kilbimy, ii. 204.
Crawfords Dykes, ii. 204 ; iii. 214.
Crawfordtown, liL 205.
Crawick water, iii. 197, 198.
Crechie Be^, ii. 576.

Moir, ii. 576.

Cree river, i. 400-404 ; ii. 6, 14, 53, 57,

67-78, 87, 107, 110112, 132, 586,

605 ; iiL 127, 128.
Creechen, ii. 96.
Creich, ii. 437, 439 ; iii. 98, 104, 106 ;

description of the parish, i. 200.

— family, i, 200.
Creig, ii. 535, 542, 562.
Creigewran, ii. 535.
Creig Mad, ii. 567.
Creigmoir, ii, 567.
Crei|rna Skarrow, ii. 602.
Cre-mche, ii. 601, 602.
Cresky, ii. 549.

Crichton, i. 373; ii. 619-622; iii. ill,

I20-I22.

— of Clunie, iii. 246.

of Frendraught, ii. 256.

^— of Karko, iii. 197.

of Ruthven, ii. 36 ; iii. 246.

-^— of Sanquhar, iii. 198.

—^ of Straord, ii. 571.

— — > minister of Eassie, i. 278.

Crieff, i. 138.

Criffell, iii. 196.

Crighie, i. 94.

Crigilty, iii. 151.

Crimond, i. 40, 45, 47> 59f ^^i ^7 ; iii*

227.
Crimonmogat, i. 40, 47, 68.
Cringels, i. 315.
Cristell mountain, i. 385, 395.
Cristisone, Mr., minister in Dundie,

ii. 34.
Croce. See Cross.
Croftanny, i. 322.
Croftfoot, i. 332.
Crofts mercat, ii. 40.
Crogo, i. 397.
Croketford, i. 396.

Cromar, i. 32, 37, 106 ; ii. 243, 250, 291 .
Cromartie, ii. 311, 359, 360, 413, 4x5.

5>5. 554 ; castle, 554 ; firth, 360,

415. 55o» 601.
— George, earle of, i. 214-216.
Crombie, sir Thomas, of Kemney, ii.

477.
Cromdale, i. 226, 230 ; iii. 243.
Cromlix, i. 311, 314; ii. 609.
Crook (Cruick), i. 161 ; ii. 545, 588.
Crook of Devon, i. 308.
Crooked Stanes, iii. 132.
Crookstoun, ii. 620 ; iii. 1 2 1, 126, 127.

castle, ii. 201.

Crookwater, i. 274.
Croonan, i. iii.
Crooves, L 141.
CrosboU, i. 193.
Crosrig, iii. 182.
Cross (Croce) water, iii. 128.

well, iii. 147.

Robert, of Crossbank, L 346.

of Camustoune, ii. 49.

of Jackstoun, i. 12.

Croasby, lord, i. 372.

Crossbill, i. 31, 295.

Cross M'Duff, i. iz6.

Crossmichaell, i. 395 ; ii. 130, 131.

Crossraguel, ii. 7, 16, 19, 20, 586.

Cross WM)dbum, ii. 616.

Croulin, ii. 221.

Crowachan Bain, ii. 537.

Crowach Luydan, ii. 570, 596.

Crowie illand, ii. 189.

Crowling isle, iii. 283.

Croy, i. 224, 226, 349 ; ii. 558, 581.

Croyhill, ii. 368 ; iii. 125.

Cruden (Crow Dan), i. 38, 39, Ji, 55,

56, 69, 70, 97 ; ii. 237, 265 ; ui. «27.
Crugleton, ii. 81, 82, 86, 88, 98, 126 ;

iii. 129.
Cruives chapel, i*. 75.
Crumby, i. 290.
Crumrig, iii. 179.
Cmmstane, iii. 181.
Crunnord-icrach, ii. 54^*.
Crunnord-ocTach, ii. 546.
Crustadfell, ii. 108.
Cryncross-Mouth, i. 261, 429.
Cudilie loch, iii. 135.
Cttich rivers, ii. 403.
Cttimrag, i. 220.
Cuimich, ii. 602.
Culbin (Cowbin), ii. 432.
Culbocky, ii. 553.
Cnlblain (Kilblam), i. 23, 25 ; ii. I47>

243, 261, 512; iii. 196.
Cttlcowye castle, ii. 555.
Culcraigie, i. 21 3«

S60

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Culfturge, i. 117, 118.

Calibrenyn, iii. 267.

Cullen, i. 241, 310 ; ii. 234, 256, 265.

house, i. 72.

George, magistrate in Aberdeen,

iii. 90.
— ^ of Boyne, i. 72.

of Buthquhan, i. 42.

Cullens of Aberdeen, ii. 474.
CuUeshillock, i. 428.
Cullicuden, i. 212.
Cullisaid, i. 191.
CuUnamune /ord, i. 350.
Cullodin (Cowlodin), ii. 557, 558.

castle, ii. 431.

Culmaly, ii. 437.

Culphich, L 27.

Culphin, i. 75.

Culpleuich, i. 21 n,

Calquhannie, i. 20, 37.

Culquharrie, i. 20, 37.

Colrain,. laird of, i. 201, 202.

Cttireuch, i. 350.

Culross, i. 307, 402.

Culsalmond, i. i, 4, 5, 12, 16, 36.

Culsh, i. 44.

Cultiewhcy, i. 139.

Cultin water, ii. 157.

Cults, i. 15, 25, 107.

Cumbernauld, i. 318, 325; ii. 193.

Cumbertrees kirk, i. 37a

Cumbra Moi^ yle, ii. 605.

Cumbray, iii. 264, 2.65.

Cumin castle, iii. 186.

Cumlage, iii. 181.

Ciimlock, ii. 61 ; iii. 197 ; lead mine,

199. , ... ^

castle. 111. 196.

Cumming, lord, ii. 161, 162.

earl of Buchan. See Buchan.

of Auchry, i. 44, 78.

Alexander, of Pittulie, i. 41.

Beglit, wife of the laird of Grant,

iii. 241.

David, earl of AthoU, ii. 598.

John, of Kinninmonth, i. 40.

Robert, of Bimes, i. 38, 43.

William, i. 236.

of Altyr, ii. 432.

of Earnside, i. 238.

of Lochabyr, ii. 5 19.

Cumnock (Cumnok), ii. 588, 605.

castle, ii. 587, 588.

Cuninghame, ii. 2, 3, 201, 205, 356,

589.590.
— :of Barnes, u. 50.

of Craigends, ii. 207.

of Enterkine, i. 411.

of Hyndhope, i. 357.

Cuninghame, Henry, of Bowhan, i. 352.

sir James, of Milciaige, i. 412.

John, of Caddell, ii. 207.

William, of Badendalloch, W.S..

i. 350.
sir William, of Capringtoun, i.

413.
sir William, of Kilmares, li- 197.

204.
Cuninghamhead, ii. 51, 590.
Cunoquhie, i. 304.

Cupar, i. 116, 295, 300; ii. 403-406.
Curgarf, i. 20.
Curquhaby, i. 246.
Currica, i. 35.

Currie, ii. 617, 622 ; iii. 118.
Curriehill, ii. 617; iii. 118.
Currier of Howdine, L 358.
Currieveghter, i. 139.
Currinc, i. 12, 13, 34, 35.

hills, i. I «.

lane, ii. 131.

Cush, i. 61, 62.
Cushny, i. 21, 25, 28, 31, 32.
Cuttieshillock, i. 260.
Cuttle, iii. 105.

castle, ii. 420, 441.

Cyris, i. 263, 264.

Dachorro, ii. 585.

Dacus, ii. 558.

Dadillan, ii. 588.

Daer water, iii. 132.

Daffinill, i. 297.

Dailachrackphuill, i. 197, 199.

Daillie, ii. 3, 7, 11, 12, 14, 18, 19.

Dalblair, ii. 588.

Dalcharry, ii. 613.

Dalchiericlick, ii. 564.

Dalclathick in Glenartnae, ii. 128L

Dalcloof, iii. 176.

Dalcross, ii. 431.

Dalcus castle, iii. 13a

Daldauran, ii. 567, 61 1.

Dalderss, i. 321.
I Daldibaig, i. 187.
I Dalduflf, li. II, 19, 585.
' Dale, ii. 578.
I Dalechaggif, ii. 573.

Dale-na-gatnich, ii. 573.

Dalfowir, ii. 574.

Dalgamo, ii. 127 ; iii. 207.

Dalgatie (Delgattie), i. 92, 290-292,
302 ; ii. 238 ; iii. 227.

castle, i. 42.

Dalgavny, i. 232.

Dalgheirach, ii. 535.

Dalgourie, i. 377 ; iii. 1 14.

Dalgyrdy, ii. 535.

GENERAL INDEX

361

Dalhakie, i. 104.
Dalherne, ii. 14.
DaUioosie, ii. 619-622 ; iii. 120, 122.

water, i. 373.

DaligiU, ii. 558.

.Daliarrach, ii. 14, 20, 585.

Dalkeith, i. 373; ii. 617-622 ; iii. 119,

121, 148.

earl of, i. 388:390, 394 ; ii. 194.

Dallachy, i. 75, 242.

Dallanqual, i. 187.

Dallashbeg, ii. 547, 569.

.Dallasbrachty, i. 229.

Ballashmoir, ii. ^47, 569.

Dallginsh Law, 1. 301.

Dallhariskill, i. 188.

Dallnair, i. 348.

Dallos, i. 225.'

Dallpatrick, i. 131.

Dallvigaibe, i. 188.

DalnuOioy, ii. 616; iii. 117.

Dalmaik, i. 261, 262, 429.

Dalmark, i. 428, 429.

Dalmartyj^e, ii. 548.

^Imeeawy, K. 558.

r«lmeriington, ii. i, 62, 69; iii. 196.

Dalmoir, ii. 563.

Palmare, ii. 200.

Dalna^^appull, ii 556.

Dalnaif, ii. 613.

Dalnavert, ii, 577.

Dalomy, ii. 558.

Dalorrens, Easter and Wester, iii. 166.

Dalqahaim, i. 3i7i 3^8 ; ii. 200.

Dalraddy, iL 573, 574.

Dalrawer, ii. 599.

Dalreoch, i. 123, 140; ii. 15, 20, 565.

Moir, ii. 563.

Dairy, ii. 61-63, 68, 71, 108, 130, 131,

618; iii. 118, 119, 205.
Dalrymple, sir Hugh, iii. 113.

Hugh, ii. 93.

sir James, of Stair, ii. 90, 107.

sir John, younger of Stair, ii. 89,

91, 92, 122.
colonel William, of Glcnmuir, i.

307.
Dalskeilpin loch, iii. 129.
Daltan-Kreigach, ii. 573.
Paltolich, i. 225.
Dalton, i. 369.
Palvine, iii. 201.
Dalzell, i. 415, 42^422; iii. 134, 135.

. sir Robert, iii. 191, 209.

Damfoord on the Tweed, i. 380, 381.
Damistemock, ii. 589.
Damme, ii. 19.
Damsay, iii. 6, 307.
Sound, i. 142.

Daneside, i. 286.

Danewort, ii. 10 1.

Daniel, Samuel, ii. 388.

burn, iii. 133.

Danish defeat at Panmure and Barrie,
ii. 49; at Gamrie, 135 ; in Strathnaver,
425 ; in Moray, 432 ; Caithness,
iii. 85 ; at Cruden, i. 56.

remains, i. 234, 235, 242, 250,

2S3, 254, 286 ; iii. 237.

Dargevill, ii. 209.

Darlielh tower, ii. 198.

Darling, Robert, minister of Ewis, i.

394.
Damaway, i. 228, 231, 310, 608.

castle, ii. 307, 309, 429, 432.

Damchester, iii. 178.
Darngavell, iii. 135.
Damoch hill, iii. 135.
Darrach, ii. 601, 602.
Darragan, ii. 602, 603.
Daughnassie, ii. 169, 1 70, 523.
Davar iland, ii. 527.
Davey castle, iii. 130. -
Davidshall, iii. 132.
Davidson of Balgey, ii. 32.

ofOighi, i. 43.

of Newtoun, i. 5.

Adam, minister of Eassie, i. 278.

George, i. 99.

John, his notes on Alloa to

Inverness and Perth, i. 309.

Robert, provost of Aberdeen, ii.

473-
William, minister of Cannesbay,

^*- 155. ^ . . ..

physician, 11. 474.

John, minister of Muthill, 133.

Daviot, i. 5, 6, 9. 10, I7i 217, 225-227;

description of the parish, 82.
Da wick, iii. 155.
Deafhilledge, i. 332.
Dean, ii. 617 ; iii. 118.

water, i. 114, 227, 277} ii. 23,

36; iii. iz8, 146, 176.

Deanskeir, ii. 609.
Deanstoun, ii. 612.
Deamess. Hee Deemess.
Dechmont hills, iii. 134, 135^
Dedications of churches and chapels,

i. xxi ; ii. Ivi ; iii. xxiii.
Dedrigs, iii. 178.
Dee, the, Aberdeenshire, i. 259, 260,

428: ii. 224, 232, 241-245, 248-^51,

259-266.
I Galloway, ii. 57-69, 107- 109, 128,

131.

, Boleskin, i. 219.

Deephope, iii. 166.

362

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Deer with forked tails, iii. xxv, 99.
Deer abbey, i. 45, 63, 64 ; ii. 237,

238. 257, 266.
Deerness, i. 141 ; iii. 6.
Deersoimd, iii. 4, 6.
Deik, i. 231.
Deldoich, i. 225.
Dellerich castle, i. 139.
Delnapot, i. 230.

Delny, Eastejr and Wester, ii. 558.
Delquhing, i. 107.
Delvey, in. 243.
Demperstone, i. 296.
Dempster, Alex., iii. 247.
— John, minister of Creich, L 203.
Dempter, minister in Moniefieth, ii.

32.
Den burn, i. 31 ; ii. 481.
Den-end, i. sioi.
Dentin, iii. 244.
Denfinnell, i. 264.
Deninesj ii. 4.
Denmylne, i. 305 ; ii. 554.
Dennily, i. 106.
Dennistoun, John, of Congndn, ii.

199.

sir Robert, of that ilk, ii. 197.

family of, ii. 197, 200.

Dennistoans of that ilk, ii. 198, 204.

Denns, i. 63, 64.

Denny, i. 319, 324, 326, 331.

Dennybridge, i. 326, 332.

Denovan craigs, i. 332.

De (^uency, Roger, iii. 209.

Derbissaig, ii. 542.

DercuUjr, ii. 571, 599.

Dereagill, ii. 105, 113.

laird of, ii. 113.

Dergean, ii. <;88.
Derin^toun, iii. 181.

Lawes, iii. 184.

Derirr na cloich, ii. 607.

Derirr na Shamprak, ii. 607.

Derkill, ii. 599.

Dermet, ii. 558.

Dernhall, iii. 150.

Derrara, ii. 612.

Dery, ii. 591.

Deshers, i. 351.

Desk bum, i. 102, 106.

Deskfoord, i. 72 ; ii. 234.

lord, i. 76, 243, 244.

Deskrie, i. 20, 22, 23, 37.

bum, ii. 243, 262.

Deucaledon ocean, i. 181 ; ii. 436.
Deuchar, i. 360; iii. 139, 165.

of that ilk, ii. 50.

Deugh water, ii. 62.
Deva river, ii. 355.

Deveron river, i. i, 12, 25, 26, 38, 4d,
46, 48, 76-92, 99 ; ii. 137. 231-23J,
238-242, 249, 2^4.257, 312, 36a

Devon river, i. 308.

Devosse, Coraelius, obtains a commis-
sion for gold-mining in Scotland,
iii. 34-40.

Devy-Beg, ii. 557.

Devy-Moir, ii. 557.

Dewar of Deuchar, i. 360.

of Lassody, i. 30a.

Dichtie, the, ii, 23, 33.

Dick, William, minister of Forgan*
denny, i. 126.

Dickieson of Cononsyth, iii. 248.

Dickson of Boughtrige, iii. I78«

of Over mains, iii. 178.

— — John, of Hartrec, iii. 151.

of Whitsleid, iii. 152.

Mr., his description of Aberlmdy

parish, i. 374.

Die water. See Dye.

Diermand, ii. 221.

Dikehead, i. 286.

Dilcroube, i. 137.

Dilenvie, iii. 134.

Dilla Moss, ii. 23.

Dilleg ferry, ii. 545.

Dimpells, iii. 181.

Dinachcorrie, i. 189, 191.

Dinard, i. 195.

Dinboug, i. 303.

Dindurcas, i. 239, 241.

Dingwall, i. 209 ; ii. 416, 550-552, 601.

— — of Lesscraiggy, i. 79.

William, of Bruckly, i. 44*

Dinidine water, 1 32.

Dining, i. 1 16.

Dinkey hill, iii. 56.

Dinmuchre, ii. 19.

Dinn, ii. 589.

Dinnat, i. 24.

Dinnethead, iii. 84.

Dinnichen, i. 276.

Dinnphutig, i. 191.

Dinnure castle, ii. 8*

Dintailler, ii. 598.

Dinwoody, i. 368.

Dipple, laird of, i. 42.

Diri-jChat, ii. 418, 438 ; iii. 99» 100, I09.

Dirigams, ii. 562.

Diri-Meanigh, ii. 418, 438, 439; iii»
97, 99, 101, 107.

Diri-Moir, ii. 418, 438 ; lu. 97, 107, lOS.

Dirletoun, i. 374, 377.

castle, iii. 114.

I Diroch, ii. 568.

, Dirumeadie, i. 191.

; Dirumoar, i. 193.

GENERAL INDEX

868

Disblair silver mine, iii. 54.

Disert, ii. 405.

Disserf, iii. 133, 134.

Diveak, ii. 550.

Divies bum, i. 86.

Dochart river, ii. 534, 535, 540, 594.

Dochom, ii. 585.

Dod, i. 276.

Dodhead, iii. x66.

Dods, iii. 175.

Doerlathers, i. 92.

Dog of Ballingrew, i. 338.

Doherne, ii. 19.

Doitellie, ii. 159 n,

Dolarie, i. 140.

DoIdufTe, ii. 18.

Doll mill dam, i. 327, 334.

Dollar (Doler), i. 136, 307.

Dollarbum, iii. 150.

DoUerlaw, iii. 141.

Dolphingtoun, iii. 115, 137, I49i I50»

I54t 155-
Dolquharran castle, ii. 12, 2a
Domine, ii. 19.
Don river, i. i, 2, 5, 7-9, 20, 35, 37,

95. 99; ii. 235. 238-245, 249, 256,

258-263, 312, 360, 416, 429. 470,

485, 490.
Don, sir Alex., of Newtoun, iii. 177.
Donald of the Isles, L 17 ; ii. 240, 259,

416, 527,
Gormesone, iii. 260, 282-284, 290,

292.
Donaldson, James, minister at Dun-

bartoun, ii. 198.
Donatty i. 151.
John, minister of Cannesbay, i.

154.
Donibirstle, i. 293, 294, 309.
Donochadie, i. 409.
Doors. See Durris.
Dorelaithen, i. 8.
Dores, i. 217, 227.
Doricha, i. 202.
Dormont, i. 166, 369.
Dornel, ii. 588.
Dornoch (Dumoch), i. 161, 172, 200,

371, 372, 381 ; "• 418, 420, 437. 439.

440, 545 ; iii. 57, 98, 103.105.
Dorrarie, 1. 170.
Dorroter, i. 321, 326.
Dotterills, iii. 184.
Douchory, iL J36.
Dougalstoun, 1. 425.
Dougland burn, i. 390.
Douglas braes, iii. 56.

bum, iii. 133, 139.

craig, iii. 56, 165.

castell, ii. 586, 606, 607.

Douglas of Cavers, iii. 158, 162.

of Emslaw, iii. 178.

of Glenbervy, iii. 240.

of Ke]^stoun, ii. 194.

of Mains, iL 194.

duke of, i. 117.

marquis of, ii. 22, 29, 30.

sir Alexander, of Mains, ii. 194.

Archibald, the Grim, i. 415.

sir Archibald, of Spott, ii. 194.

sir James, of Loudon, iiL 148.

James, of Mains, ii. 194.

colonel James, of Skkline, iiL 151.

Tames, minister of Kirkwall, i.

146, 148.

John, of Istenhouse, iii. 204.

Kicoll, iL 194.

sir Robert, of Bleckerstoun, iL 194.

Robert, of Bridgefoord, L 257.

sir Robert, of Spott, ii. 194.

Robert, bishop of Dunkeld, L 416.

minister of Bothwell, L 416.

minister in Kilpatrick, L 398.

Douglasses, iL 193, 235, 252, 435-

Dounachtanbeg, ii. 574.

Dounachtanmoir, ii. 574.

Doun Ballach, ii. 549.

Doun Bin, iL 567.

Doun-Creigh (Crigh), iL 420, 441 ; iiL

105.
Doune or Down, i. 42-46 ; ii. 143, 548,

566, 567 ; castle, i. 312, 338 ; river,

i. 1-3. S. 8, 10, 18, 19 ; ii. 582, 587,

606.
Dounen, ii. 567.
Doun^illies, ii. 57a
Doumelareme, ii. 568.
Dounie vastra, ii. 569.
Doun-no-whurr, ii. 549.
Dounwyline castle, iii. 282.
Doutelair castle, ii. 60a
Doveloch, ii. 4.
Dover castle, i. 252.
Dow, ii. 576 ; iii. 276.
alias Parson, Andrew, vicar of

Abertarf, L 218.

Henry, of Wester Polder, i. 340.

Dowgaray water, ii. 566.
Dowhat water, iii. 205.

Dowin, ii. 537-
" Ocrai

583.

Dowiseill Ucra, 11
— Ycre, iL 583.
Dowlarg, ii. 14.
Dowlaw, iii. 183.
Dowleshy, ii. 550.
Dowletyr, ii. 567, 608,
Dowletyrille, ii. 567.
Dowloch, iii. 203.
Dowlochen, ii. 596.

S64

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Dow-Loyn, iii. 97.
Down. See Doune.
Down of Riavochan, i. 209.
Down Carranach, i. 209.
Downen, ii. 597.
Downhead, i. 337.
Downie, ii. 546 ; iii. 58.

castle, ii. 32, 549.

water, ii. 549, 550.

Downs -Law, iii. 56.

Dowqharie, i. 337.

Dow-vvsk water, ii. 604.

Dow whillaig, ii. 551.

Dradune, iii. 119.

Draky-Beg, ii. 557.

Draky-Moir, ii. 557.

Drawguyin, ii. ^8 1 .

Dreghorn, ii. 5^.

Dregs Moss, i. 175.

Dreynach, ii. 583.

Dreynie, ii. 554.

Drighmim, i. 405.

Drimghempte, i. 220.

Drim-Hollistill, i. 182, 183.

Drimmellen, ii. 585.

Drimmin (Druymmyn), i. 340-348 ; ii.

230» 253. 555» 60s ; »"• 243-
Drimminor castle, i. 35 ;- ii. 244, 262,

600.
Drinking Stone loch, iiL 137.
Dripp ferry, i. 339.
Drippans, ii. 566.
Drocnell castle, iii. 148, 149.
Drochrig, ii. 606.

Drointemes (Drunternes), ii. 183, 532.
Droit-Bin-Loyd, iii. 97.
Dron, i. 115, 124; Taylor's description

of, 126.
Dronsheill, iii. 181.
Druid altars in Kildrummie, i. 30;

druidical remains, 242, 245 ; Druids

in lona, ii. 217.
Druie water, iii. 242.
Drum, ii. 618; iii. 119, 120; castle,

ii. 242, 261.

laird of, ii. 51.

— of Pluscarden, i. 237.

Drumack, i. 429.

Drumadoul, ii. 613.

Dram-Allabyn, ii. 565.

Drumbeg, ii. 5.

Drumblade, i. 19, 36; iii. 227 r de>

scription of the parish, i. 85.
Drumburle, ii. 11, 20.
Drumbuy. ii. 550, 557, 591, 612.
Drumcars, ii. 609.
Drum Cassie, i. 103.
Drumchappell, ii. 195.
Drumchardeny, ii. 55a

Drumcreif, i. 367.

Drumdenan, iiL 55.

Drumdouls, i. 312.

Drumelzear, iii. 133, 152- 156*

Drumfork, i. 113.

Drumfiries, L 366; ii. 129, 130, 132,

605-607.
Drumgarran, iii. 55.
Drumgeicht, ii. 31.
Drumgowdrum, i. 31.
Drumhallesdell, iii. 97.
Drumhead, iL 198.
Drumhouliston, i. 186.
Drumkilbo, iii. 246.
Drumlahoy, i. 96.
Drumlanrig, ii. 605 ; iii. 202.
Drumlean, i. 343.
Drumlithie, i. 264, 267-269.
Drumlocfay, ii. 572.
Drummaston, ii. 85.
Drummellan, ii. 6, 11, 20.
Drummie, i. 276 ; ii. 28.
Drummikill, i. 348 ; ii. 200, 581, 605.
Drummind burn, ii. 610.
Drummingglash, ii. 557.
Dnimmochrin, ii. ii, 20.
Drummond, barony of, L 348.

castle; i. 129, 131, 138.

of Blair, iii. 222.

of Deanstoun, i« 338.

of Drummowhance, i. J 30.

of Gardrum, i. 280.

Archibald, minister of Muthfll, L

133-

David, of Pitkelliny, i. 138.

George, of Belliclon, i. 14a

James, bishop of Bricben, i« 39,

133-

of Blair Drummond, u 339.

of Raltie, i. 137.

John, of Kelly, i. I2i.

of Killdees, i. 13a

of Macoranstoun, i. 338.

of Newloun of Blair, ii. 572.

of Piikellony, i. 128, 129.

of Stobhall, ii. ja

Drummore, ii. 98 ; iii. 129.
Drummowhance, i. xxiv, 130.
Drummylaird, i. 332.
Drumna-chork, ii. 541.
Drumnagon, ii. 608.
Drum-na-hallowdale, ii. 422, 561.
Drum na Marg, ii. 555.
Drumnymnoir, ii. 556.
Drumoaik, i. 259.
Drumrash, laird of, ii. 60.
Drumrie, ii. 195, 580. . .
Drumtochty, i..268.
Drumuachder, i. 310. . ■

GENERAL INDEX

365

DrumwhassiU, i. 348 ; ii. 605.
Drumwhiddin, ii. 554.
Drumylie loch, ill. 222.
Dnmkie, i. 341.
Drujripfoord, ii. 611.
Druymbe, ii. 564.
Druymmyn. See Drimmin.
Dryburgh, ii. 34 ; iii. 158, 173, 176.
Dryden, ii. 617.
Dryhope, i. 360; iii. 165.
Drylea or Drylaw, ii. 617.

Easter and Wester, iii. 118.

Drymmochrin, ii. 585.

Drysail, i. 315.

Drysdaile kirk, i. 368.

Duart (Dowart) castle, iii. 276.

Duartbeg, L 197, 199.

Duartmoar, i. 198, 199.

Dubbiside, i. 299.

Dubstone, i. 34.

Duchal, ii. 207, 595 ; iii. 127.

castle, ii. 207.

Duchlash, i. 348.
Duchray, i. 340, 349.

water, i. 343, 347, 349.

Duddiston, ii. 618, 622 ; iii. 119.
Dudop, ii. 31.

Dudwick, i. 43, 97, 426, 427 ; ii. 238.
Duff of Braco, i. 76, 79, 80, 82, 87.
— Alex., of Drummoor, i. 206.

of Hatton, i. 93.

Pat., of Iden, i. 3.

William, of Braco, i. 243, 246.

Duffus, i. 230, 232 ; ii. 433, 443 ; de-
scription of the parish, i. 233.

of Innershin, i. 201.

Alexander, lord, i. 233.

James, lord, i. 233, 236.

family, iii. 60.

Dugalstoun, ii. 195.

Duhakabaick, ii. 185.

Dnilik, ii. 541.

Duirinish (Dewrenes), ii. 183, 531,

532-
Dukes castell, i. 343.
Dukeston, i. 31.
Duklichty, i. 226.
Duhissie, i. 228.
DuUan, i. 24^, 246.

water, iii. 241-

Dulnain river, ii. 249.
Dumallinpton. See Dalmellington.
Dttmbamie, i. 115, 124, 126, 127.
Dumbarton, ii. 193-198, 424f 579i S^o,

$92-594, 607; short description of,

li. 192.

castle, i. 353, 425 ; iii. 7.

Dambennan, i. 35, 36, 79, 88.
Dumbeth, iii. 84.

Dumblate, i. 35.

Dumbreck, iL 238.

Dumchroisk, ii. 535.

Dumfries, ii. 52-01, 66, 108, 122, 125-
I29» 355; curiosities of, by Dr.
Archbald, iii. xxiii, 185.
' Dumgree, ii. 125, 127.

Dummeath, i. 80.
, Dumpender Law, iii. 56.
I Dumphara casile, iii. 130.
I Dumuies, i. 36, 86.
j Dun, ii. 37, 41 ; short notes on the
i parish, i. 272.

laiid of, ii. 41, 50.

of Reatie, i. 75.

Patrick, physician in Aberdeen,

ii. 474-

principal of Marischal

college, Aberdeen, ii. 477, 481.

Robert, physician in Aberdeen, iL

474-
Dunachton, i. 310; ii. 574.
Dun-AUiskaeg, ii. 547, 569.
Dunawardie castle, ii. 187, 188, 527.
Dunaynt, ii. 189.
Dunbar, ii. 357; iii. iii; castle, iii.

114.

" earl of, iii. 8, 161.

of Asliesk, i. 238.

of Dumphara, iii. 130.

of Entriken, i. 407.

of Hemprigs, i. 239.

of Killbuyack, i. 238.

ofMachermore, i. 404; ii. 171.

of Thundertoune, i. 230.

of Tillienaught, i. 74.

Archibald, of Thundertoune, i.

233. 236.
sir David, of Baldone, ii. 57, 64,

78, 80, 107 ; his description of Wig-

toun, iii. 127.

Gavin, bishop of Aberdeen, ii.

246, 264, 476, 4&4, 486, 487, 489.

sir James, i. 73.

James, of Claves, i. 237.

of Mochrum, ii. 87.

Patrick, of Blair, iii. 130.

of Bowarmadden, i. 163, 171,

176.

Robert, of Buge, iii. 130.

sir Robert, of North feilds, i, 171,

177.

family, ii. 307, 309, 368, 435 ;

iii. 130.

Dunbeath castle, i. 162, 164, 169; ii.

423. . ^

water, 1. 164.

Dunbennan, i. 85, 86.
I Dunbera, i. 114.

366

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Dunblane, i.310; description of the

parish, by M*Gouan, 311.
Dunbreck castle, i. 98.
Dunbritton, iL 313-3x5 and n, 358.
Dunbuck, ii. 196, 58a
Duncan of Aidunj^, iii. 245.
of Lundie, iii. 246.

— Alex., of Strathmartine, iii 246.

— William, his notes for ^nff and
Buchan, i. 46.

rock, ii. 222.

Duncansbay (Dungisbee), i« r53 ; ii.

421, 437 ; iii. 86.
Head, i. 159; ii. 359, 360, 413,

421,509; iii. 82, 84.
Duncan-yeemer, ii. 588.
Duncarro Law, ii. 403.
Dunchine, iii. 245.
Dunchonill, iii. 268.
Duncnib, i. 119, 120; ii. 59^.
Dundaff, i. 293, 315, 350; ii. 19, 581,

586.
Dundarg, i. 41, 49.
Dundas of Baldovie, ii. 43 ; iii. 247.
William, description of Caithness,

iii. 82.
Dundee, ii. 21, 23, 26, 27, 30-34, 50,

357. 509. 594» 604 ; iii. 245 ; siege

of, in 165 1, i. xia
— ^ constable of, ii. 30, 31, 149.

earl of, ii. 31, 34. $0*

—^ presbytery of, li. 30.

Dunderig, li. 223,

Dundochill, i. 343.

Dundonald, i. 409, 412 ; ii. 209, 582,

584.
^^- earl of, i. 413 > iii* 200-2i8.

William, earl of, ii. 197.

Dundomi^il, i. 194*
Dundouchie castle, ii. 175, 528.
Dundreggan Beg, ii. 549.
Dundreggan Moir, ii. 549.
Dundrenan, i. 399 ; ii. 54, 58, 67, 71,

108, 115, 122, 132*
Dundroich, iii. 14X.
Dunfermline, i. 309 ; ii. 405, 406 ; de-
scription of the parish, i. 287, 289,

291.

earl of, i. 240 ; ii. 238, 239, 257.

Dunglass, i. 168 ; ii. 196, 580 ; iii. 114,

184.
Dungoyael. ii. 58a
Dunguyn, ii. 5TO.
Dumcha, iL 556, 557.
Dunichine, ii. 25, 27.
Dunideer, i. 4 : iii. 54.
Dunipace, i. 301, 319, 324-326, 329:

u-578-
Dunivastray, ii. 547.

Dunkeld, i. 109, 3x0; ii. 358, 538:

594. 595-
Dunkenny, i. 277.
Dunlappie, ii. 41.
Dunlechety, i. 217.
Dunlugas, i. 42, 48, 77. 245-
Dunmaglass, i. 225, 229.
Dunnakyne castle, iii. 282.
Dunnet, i. 170, 174, 176.
Dunnethead, i. 173.
Dunnienad, i. 273.
Dunning, i. 137 ; description of the

parish, Ii8.
Dunnotar, i. 247, 265 ; ii. 337, 403, 580 ;

iii. xxiv ; description ol the parish,

231.
DunoUy (Dunnolih), ii. 150, 175, 514,

Dunoone, 11. 27, 144, 145.

Dunovaik, iii. 272.

Dunowaig castle, ii. 188, 189.

Dun-Oyne, ii. 510, 592.

Dunphail (Dunfale) castle, ii. 595.

Dunray, i. 184.

Dunrie, ii. 9.

Dunrobin, ii. 418-420, 441 ; iii. 105.

Dunrod, ii. 57, 71, 132, 205; iiL

127.
Duns, iiL 173, 180 ; Dunslaw, iii 181,

184; castle, 184.
Dunscoir, i. 395, 396, 397 ; »». 55. 60,

61, 108.
Duns Scot us, iiL 18 1.
Dunshelt, i. 296.
Dunshinan, i. 229.
Dunside, iii. 181.
Dunskaig, iL 95, 182, 221, 531, 583,

598 ; iii. 129, 282.

laird of, ii. 94.

Dunskilly, i. 372.

Dunstaffnage castle, iL 150-152, 514,

r^528.593: .. ^^
Duitttan mir, 11. 266.
Dunsyre, iiL 1x5, 154.
Duntochie, iL 20a
Duntoylme castle, ii. 183, 223.
Duntreath, iL X96, 580, 581.
Duntroone, iL 31.

castle, iL 149.513-

Dan-Turket, ii. 556.

Dun Tuylim castle, ii. 532, 584.

Dnnvegan castle, ii. 183, 222, 532 ; iiu

282, 285.
DunynaM, ii. 43 ; iiL 247.
Duplin, L 121.
Duray, iii. 266.
Duren loch, iii. 84.
Durgavel, L 425.
Duigoure, iL 157, 517-

GENERAL INDEX

367

Dnrham of Grange, ii. 32, ^ ; iii. 245.

of Omachie, ii. 32.; iiu 245.

of Pitkcrro, ii. 31 ; iii. 245.

During ferry, ii. 538.

Durineill castle, iii. 282.

Darisdeir, iiL 16, 200, 201.

Durmes, iii. 105.

Dum, i. 73»74; "• 192.

Durness, i. 186, 191 ; ii. 424-427, 438,

441, 442, 559-561 ; iii. 56, 96-100,

107, 108.
Durris or Doors, i. 247, 259, 260*264,

267, 269, 428, 429 ; ii. 555-
Durrour, ii. 517.
Dury, George, of Luscar, i. 292.
Dusk river, ii. 3, 14, 15.
Duthell, iii. 240, 241.
Duynish, ii. 534, 596.
Dyce, i. 84, 99-
Dye (Die) water, i. 260, 261, 405-407,

428 ; iii. i8i.
Dyesbauch, iii. 181.
Dykethead, iii. 182.
I^n bam, i. 175.
Dyorock rivulet, ii. 4, ii, 19.
Dyron loch, i. 175.

laird of, i. 175.

Dyrry-Chatt, ii. 560.
Dysart, i. 299, 310 ; ii. 43.

Eachaw, iii 162.

Eagles in Buchan, ii. 136 ; in Orkney,

iu. 5; inTweeddale, 141.
Eaglesham. See Egilischay
Eardeth. Su Ardoch.
Earlesmill, ii. 432.
Earlshaugh, iii. 153.
Earlston, ii. 622 ; iii. 172-175.

laird of, ii. 61, 128.

Earn, the, i. 115, 117, 119, 130, 138-

140, 227, 228, 298; ii. 193, 429,

558. 593, 595.
Eaman. See Ernen.
Eame isle, iiL 272.
Eamside, i. 238 ; ii. 432.
Earswoodsyck, i. 391.
Eassie, i. 26, 32, 33, 277 ; ii. 35 ; iii

246.
East Gaidar, il 368, 622; iii 125.

Goates, il 618,

Gordon, iii 177.

Loch, iii 150.

Lothian, description of, iii. 1 10.

Mains, iii. 182.

Marwhirn, I 396.

Nisbet, iii. 181, 184.

Restoun, iii. 183.

Sheills, iii. 183.

Stormonth, il 572.

Easter Arbol, I 215.

Balintons, ii. 609.

Bealty, I 105.

Bowhaple, i. 339.

Braickie, ii. 44 ; iii. 247.

Brockhill, iii 183.

Brockland, il 612.

Glova, i. 30.

Clyth, i. 157.

Grichton, il 619; iii 121.

GuUens, i. 314.

Drylay, iii. 118.

Duddiston, ii. 618; iii 119.

Faimy, I 303.

Frew, ii. 609.

Garty, iii 99.

Gellit, l 291.

Granton, il 617 ; iii 118.

Howden, il 6x5 ; iii 116.

Kessak, ii. 554.

Kilbimy, alitu Kibery-Grenock,

il 2C34.

Kilpatrick, il 193-196.

Lathron, I 162, 163.

Lauriston, ii. 617.

Lenzie, ii. 192.

Lymphop^, ii. 617 ; iii 118.

Mains, iii. 184.

Memus, i. 286.

Melhie, ii. 27.

Moristoun, iii. 184.

Oakwood, iii. 167.

Ogle, I 287 ; il 29.

Pourie, ii. 33.

Qhar, 1-411.

Reder, ii. 554.

Rind, I 127, 297, 298.

Seatoune, ii. 45.

Walkingshaw, ii. 202.

Weems, ii. 195.

Eastertoun bum, iii. 132.
Easthavene of Panmure, ii. 21, 22.
Easthouses, iii. 121.
Eastwood, ii. 209 ; iii. 126, 127.
Eata, il 318.

Eaunlich yien, ii. 602, 604.

Eawich river, ii. 524.

Ebdie, i. 296.

Ebrick hill, i. 100.

Ebrie water, i. 62, 427.

Ebte, I 115.

Eccles, iii. 173, 177, 178, 203*

John, I 272, 273.

Ecclesfechan, i. 369, 370, 371,

382.
Ecelisa Magirdele, i. 128.
Eckfoord, ill 158.
Ecolsie, I 116.
Eday, i. 142 ; iii. 305.

368

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Edderachillis, i. iS6, 193-198; ii. 359,

424, 427. 441-443. 545 ; i"- 96, 97.

icx), io6-io8.
Edderalackach, ii. 566.
Edderdin, ii. 569.
Eddertoun, i. 200.
Eddira-weanneach, ii. 535.
Eden, the, Berwickshire, iii. 173, 176.

Fife, i. 296, 297 ; ii. 357, 403,

404.

moor, i. 297, 303.

Edgar of Keathock, ii. 40.
of Newtoun, iii. 178.

of Weatherlie, iii. 179.

Edward, schoolmaster, i. 145.

Edgar- Hope, iii. 184.

Edgbuckling-brae, iii. 110, 115.

Ed^ertoun, iii. 137.

Eklinample, i. 335.

Edinburgh, i. 416; ii. 356, 401, 509,

510, 593, 604, 618, 620, 622; iii.

119; description of the city and

county, ii. xlvii, 614, 623 ; iii. 115.
castle, i. 328 ; ii. 618, 620 ; iii.

119, 121.

university, ii. 626.

Edindiack, i. 36.
Edingairick, i. i, 3, 12
Edinglassie, i. 20, 37, 80, 247.
Edinkillie(Edynkilie), i. 229.
Edira Charrin, ii. 548.
Edir Din, ii. 547.
Edirgillbe^, u. 584.
Edirgillmoir, ii. 584.
Edmonston of Ednam, iii. 162.

Tames, of Broich, i. 351.

John, of Coldoch, i. 338.

Patrick, of Newtoun, i. 337.

William, of Cambuswallace, i.

338.

family, iii. 177.

Ednam, iii. 162, 172, 177.
Edram, iii. 173, 181.
Edringtoun, iii. 183.
Edward, John, of Persie, iii. 246.

Mr., minister in Murrayes, ii. 33.

Edzel, i. 262-266, 274; ii. 21, 22, 37,

39-

laird of, ii. 22, 24, 39, 50.

Eels, ii. 148.

Egerhope water, iii. 174, 175.

Egga isle, iii. 281.

Egglesgrcg, iii. 236.

Eght, i. 261.

Egilischay, iii. xxiv, 6, 306, 317.

Eglintoun, ii. 590, 591, 606.

earl of, i. 413 ; ii. 209.

E^lisham, ii. 201, 209; iii. 126.
Eidingtoun, iii. 182.

Eig, ii. 175. 176, 528, 582.

Eilshieshields, i. 368.

Einzie, i. 76.

Eisdcalfe, iii. 269.

Eisel, iii. 271.

Eisilache, iii. 272.

Eisilside burn, iii. 133.

Ekfoord, iii. 136.

Elcheg river, ii. 414.

Elchen, i. 127.

Elchess castle, i. 230.

Elcho, i. 297, 298.

Elder, lord John, iii. 308.

Eldersly castle, ii. 202, 209. .

Eldinghope, iii. 166.

Eleorholme, iii. 304.

Elfrickle bog, iii. 133.

Elgin, i. 229, 230, 232 ; ii. 259, 307,

308, 359, 4i5» 428-435. 509. 595-

castle, ii. 433 ; iii. 130.

Elibanke, i. 360 ; iii. 140, 163, 164.

lord, i. 360.

Eliestoun castle, ii. 205.
Eliot, ii. 405 ; iii. 223.

of Borthwick, i. 3^6.

of LaristoD, iii. 162.

of Woolie, iii. 162.

Wm. , of Stobbs, iii. 140, 162 ; his

description of Selkirk, 138.
Elit forrest, ii. C72.
Ell water, iii. 183.
EUancome, ii. 442.; iii. no.
Elian Donald, ii. 542 ; iii. 102.

Feyad, iii. 102.

Handa, i. 197 ; ii. 442 ; iii.

107.

Minrie, iii. 102.

Moir, iii. 280.

na Neache, iii. xxiv, 280.

Neiwe, ii. 442 ; iii. 1 10.

Righair, i. 194.

Rein, ii. 442 ; iii. 1 10.

2^yle, ii. 442 ; iii. 1 10.

Ellback, iii. 178.

Ellem water, ii. 238, 239 ; iii. 135.

Elleock, iii. 199.

Ellerslie, ii. 589.

Ellisheuch, iii. 162.

Ellon, i. 43. 45. 59-62, 97, 98, 426,.

427 ; iii. 225, 227.
Eliot water, ii. 47.
Elludeane wood, iii. 137.
EUumfoord, iii. 182.
Elmoor loch, iii. 140.
Elphen, iii. 55.
Elphingston, i. 309, 327-329. 373. 375 >

iii. 114.

of Glack, i. 10.

sir John, of Logie, i. 7, 18.

GENERAL INDEX

S69

Elphingston, William, bishop of Aber-
deen, ii. 245, 263. 484, 486, 489.

Elrick, L 84, 85.

Elridge, i. 316, 322, 325.

Elsick, i. 247, 254256 ; iii. 236.

Eltrive bum, iii. 139, 166.

Embo, ii. 420, 440 ; iii. 104, 105.

English, William, minister of Kil-
patrick, i. 398.

Enhallow, iii. xxiv, 306.

Ennets, i. 103.

Enoch, ii. 13; iii. 202.

Enrick river, i. 344, 347-350. 353 5 »•
200.

Enterkine, i. 411 ; iii. 200, 20t.

Enterkinhead, ii. 607.

Enzie, ii. 232, 234, 249, 250, 254, 256,
360, 422.

Eorsay, iii. 279.

Eortie loch, iii. 181.

Epiack or Epiacte, ii. 72.

EriboU, i. 19^ ; ii. 441.

Ericht river, ii. 170, 594 ; iii. 223.

Erickstone, i. 365-366; iii. 17, 215.

ErLseae, ii. 177, 529, 582.

Eriskeray, iii. 289.

Erkenholm, i. 388, 389.

Em Craig, iii. 141, 150.

Ernan, i. 20-23, 37.

Emslaw, iii. 178.

Emy water, ii. 557.

Err isle, iii. 293.

Erracher Moir, ii. 602.

Erray, iii. 277.

Errigig river, ii. 309, 434.

Errikhill, iii. 131.

Errochon-Beg, ii. 536.

Errochon-Moir, ii. 536.

Errol, ii. 237.

countess of, i. 38, 42, 44.

earl of, i. 256 ; ii. 237, 238, 257,

265, 571 ; iii. 7. 226, 227 ; ode to,
14 ; burial-place of, 223.

family, 1. 92, 249.

Erskine, i. 423-424 ; ii. 203, 204, 210,
606 ; iii. 127.

of Carbuddo, ii. 47.

colonel, of Gamock, i. 308.

of Dun, i. 274.

■^^ of Newbigging, i. 292.

of Pittodrie, i. 7, 18.

Tames, 1. 46.

Esbufg, ii. 546, 568.

Esk river, Dummes, i. 389-393 ; ii. 372,

593.

Midlothian, ii. 615, 620. See

also Northesk and Southesk.

Eskdale, i. 366; iL 355; iii. 156;
regality, i. 389.

VOL. III.

Eslie, i. 239, 267, 269.

Essgrowach bum, ii. 567.

Essich, ii. 555.

Essilmont, i. 97, 426 ; iL 238.

Estinanoion, iL 564.

Esynside loch, iii. 14a

Etera-Vijsk, ii. 545, 600.

Etha or Ethie, 1. 275 ; iL 24, 44 ; iii.
4, 10.

Etir a Chewles, ii. 559.

Etteress, ii. 576.

Etterkin, iL 587.

Etthra, iL 613.

Ettrick forest, description of. See Sel-
kirk.

water, L 355, 357, 361, 362 5 iii.

96, 138, 164, 166.

Etyr a vyisk. See Etera-Vijsk.

Eugie. See Ugie.

Eusdale, iL 355 ; iii. 1^6.

Evan water, i. 332 ; iii. 134.

Evandale, i. 366; iii. 134.

Evart island, ii. 212.

Evelick river, ii 419, 438.

Evenie water, ii. 27, 47.

Evie, iii. 310.

Evon Portry, ii. 582.

Ewart, Mr., provost of Kirkcudbright,
his description of Galloway, iiL xiv,

Ewe, 11. 414, 539, 540 ; liL 295.

Ewich, ii. 534.

Ewis river, i. 389.394; description of

the parish, i. 393.
Ewisleyis, i. 393.
Ewyir, ii. 534.

Excise in shires and burghs, iiL 68.
Eyardan, priest of Braemore,i. 165, 166.
Eye bum, ii. 241, 260; iiL 173, 183.
Eyemouth, iiL 173, 183.
Eynagh of Binmore, iii. 97.
Eytken, iiL 226.

Fabill isle, iii. 292.

Fadaelly, iL 557.

Faechloyn, ii. 556.

Fae HoUistil, i. 182.

Faem Icra, ii. 547, 569.

Faeru Meanach, ii. 569.

Faem-Ocrach, ii. 547, 569.

Faichfield, i. 69.

Faik, L 273.

Faill water, L 411, 4r3.

Fair isle, iL 352 ; iii. 249.

Fairay. See Pharay.

FairfuU, Colin, of Breandam, L 339.

Faiman, iL 582.

Faimielie, i. 361 ; iiL 1 39, 140, 1 64.

Fairny, i. 304.

2a

370

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Faimy hirst, iii. I37» 157.

lairds of, iii. 1 6a

Fairs, i. xviii, 253, 295 ; ii liii, 13, 25-

26, 30, 31, 57, 62, 65, 73; iii. xxii,

10$ passuft.
Fairtoun, i. 139.

Fala, ii. 6x9, 622; iii. 1 15, I2I, 15a
Falabank, iii. 183.
Falahead, iii. 139.
Falahill, ii. 620; iii. 121.
Falbar, ii. 202.
Falconer of Ferdro, iii. 240.

of Halkarton, iii. 240.

sir David, ii. 40.

sir John, of Galraw, ii. 41 ; iii.

240, 247.
l^alcons at Buchan, ii. 136 ; at Ethie,

44.
Faldshope, iii. 166.
Falineshe, iii. 135, 137.
Falkirk, i. 318.
Falkland, i. 1 16, 298; ii. 357, 403-

405. 593. 595. 607.
Fallacht river, ii. 536.
Fallenbum, iii. 163.
Fallinside loch, iii. 137.
Falsna water, iii. 181.
Familan, ii. 549.
Fangriste, iii. 179.
Fannes, iii. 167.
Far. See Farr.
Farard Point, i. 193.
Faray. See Pharay.
Farelin, i. 219; ii. 556, 557.
Farge river, i. Ii6-ii8, 127, 298.
Farigag river, i. 218.
Farlety, ii. 577.

Farnal, i. 273 ; ii. 37, 43 ; iii. 247.
Farquhar, Wm., his description of

Upper Banchory, Doors, etc., i. 259;

his memorandum about Inchenan and

Ereskin, i. 423.
Farquharson, Alex., of Monalty, i. 103.
Farquharsons of Braemar, ii. 43^.
Farr, i. 181, 186, 187, 225; li. 425,

438, 557, 5^. 562 ; iU. 99, no.
Farrar, river, ii. 360, 413, 415, 539,

552. 553. , .
Farrars Head, 1. 292.
Farregill, iu 598.
Farrmheall, i. 194, 198.
Far Strathy, ii. 561.
Far Tung, ii. 561.
Fasean, i. 419.
Fashbhinn, i. 194.
Fasithill, iii. 177.
Faskin, i. 71 ; iii. 134.
Faslain castle, ii. 199.
Fasque, i. 267, 269.

Fastcastle, iii. 183.

Fasthench, iii. 166.

Fauldhouse hills, ii. 614.

Faunyside loch, i. 317.

Fau|>5, Over and Nether, iii. 166.

Fauside, iii. 114, 176.

Favette, i. 20.

Fayenes, ii. 576.

Fayir, ii. 556.

Fea, Ja. , yr. of Chestran, i. 142.

Feahallesdell, iiL 97.

Fearn, i. 213-215, 274, 285 ; ii. 37, 38,

416 ; iii. 246.
Fechil, i. 97, 426.
Fechlin river, i. 218-220.
Fedall, i. 131, 314.
Fedels, ii. 609.

Federat, i. 44, 61-63 ; "• 237-
Feichfeild, i. 45.
Feinnbhinn, l. 195.
Fenton tower, iii. 114.
Fera, ii. 529.
Feray, iii 289.
Ferberin, ii. 553.
Ferder water, i. 268, 27a
Feredeth, a Pictish king, killed near

Forfar, i. 272.
Fergusly, ii. 209.

Ferguson, Tames, his description of
the parish of Mortlach, i. 87; de-
scription of the parish of Longside,
i. 69; description of New- Deer, i. 61;
description of Strichen, i. 59.

James, of Pitfbur, i. 45, 63.

Robert, of Craigdarroch, iii. 205,

206.

minister in Strathmartine, ii. 34.

Ferintosh, i. 229.

Ferm, iii. 134.

Fern Donel, ii. 555,

Femwall, i. 275.

Ferredene, ii. 22, 42.

Ferren isle, ii. 583.

Ferrin-Coskarie, iii. loi.

Ferrydon, i. 273.

Ferryhill, i. 100 ; ii. 481.

Ferrytoun, ii. 67-72, 1 12, 116, 132,
605.

Ferseden, ii. 597.

Fertric, L 97.

Feshie (Fischie) river, ii 577.

Fether- Angus, i. 65.

Fettercaim, i. 262-269, 428.

Fetteresso, i 107, 261, 264, 265, 429;
description of the parish, 247.

Fetterneer, i 7, 19, 95t 96; ii 24*,
263.

Feuch water, i. 259-261, 428, 429 ; ii.
242, 261.

GENERAL INDEX

871

Fevady, ii, 570.

FiaQtilock, i. 199.

Fiddes, i. 98, 265.

Fiddich water, i. 88, 230, 245, 246 ; ii.

231. 253-
FidlachaiUe, iii. 267.
Fidlavirow, iii. 267.
Fidler burn, iii. 133.
Fiendsfell, iii. 141, 152.
Fife, ii. 357 ; description for the map of

Fife, 402.

minister of Ruthvene, ii. 36.

Fi^at burn, ii. 618 ; iii. 119.
Fillen, ii. 534,
Findaury, i. 274.

laird of, ii. 40.

Findhom, i. 231, 310; ii. 307, 309,

312, 428, 429, 43*. 434i 576, 608.
Findlae, i. 32.
Findlater, patron of Fordyce, i. 87.

castle, i. 73 ; ii. 234, 256.

earl of, i. 72-76 ; ii. 234, 235, 256.

Findlayston, i. 253.

Findoch fair, i. 121.

Findochus, king of Scots, i. 121.

Findogask, i. 118.

Findon, ii. 554 ; iii. 236.

Findounbeg, ii. 553.

Findrassie, i. 229, 230, 232 ; ii. 433.

Finella river, ii. 159 h.

Fingass, i. 127.

Finges, i. 82, 83.

Fingland, iii. 148.

Finglass water, ii. 566.

Finglen, iL 553, 564.

Fingletoun, ii. 208.

Finhaven castle, i. 285.

Finlarig castle, ii. 53s, 537, 5.94.

Finlastoun, i. 425; ii. 204; iii. 127.

Finlaysone, Alex., minister at Eassie, i.

278.
Finloch, ii. 436 ; iii. 97, 102.
Fin-Mack-Coul, i. 346 ; ii. 552, 555.
Finnalairbeg water, ii. 563.
Finnalan, ii. 564.

Beg, ii. 564.

Finnart, i. 354 ; ii. 596.
Finnavene castle, ii. 37.

laird of, ii. 38.

Finnylost, i. 37.
Fintack, ii. 608.
Fintray, i. 2, 8, 13, 84, 350 5 "• 33»

244,263,^81,605.

laird of, ii. 50.

Finztan chapel, ii. 88.

Firth, Orkney, iii. 308.

Fish of Dumfries, iii. 190, 252; the

herring fishery on the Clyde, iii. 211;

the price of fish in Shetland, 61 ;

fish in St Mary's loch, 144 ; fish of

Galloway, 194.
Fish-cross, Aberdeen, ii. 478.
Fisherie, Manor of, i. 42.
Fisherrow, ii. 617, 618 ; iii. 118, 119.
Fishertoun of Avach, i. 208.
Fishwick (Fishik), iii. 182.
Flada, ii. 213 ; iii. 264, 284, 286, 288,

294, 298.
Flairwill loch, i. 177.
Flass, iii. 179.

Flassedges, iii. 172, 179, 184.
Flatertoun, ii. 209.
Flaveran, i. 427.
Fleet water, ii. 66, lOi, 107, lio, 131,

132, 605.
Fleming of Barochan, ii. 207.

ofBoghali, ii. 208.

James, of Boghall, ii. 208.

John, lord, earl of Wigtoun, ii.

193, I97i 208.

sir Malcolme, of Biggar, ii. 193.

earl of Wigtoun, ii. 193.

sir Robert, of Biggar, ii. 193. ■

Tho., earle of Wigtoun, ii. 193.

Flemingtoun, i. 275 ; ii. 558 ; iii. 148,

183.
Flesh-cross, Aberdeen, ii. 478.
Fletcher, Robert, ii« 30.
Flictddy, i. 225.
Floors, iii. 137.
Florentius, St., ii. xvii.
Floshend, i. 384.
Flotay, iii. 311.
Floud, Thomas, iii. 41.
Fochabers, i. 230, 241.
Fodderrance, i. 280.
Foggiemiln, i. 23.
Fogo, iii. 173» I79» i85-

John, of Row, i. 337.

Foirg, i. 93-
Foord, iii. 121.
Footdee, ii. 482, 483,
Forbes, i. 2, 13, 21, 33-35.

lord, ii. 236, 244, 262, 472, 48a

of Abbotshall, ii. 238.

of Balogie, i. 44.

of Blacktoun, i. 42.

of Boynlie, i. 44, J3.

of Forbes castle, 1. 2.

of Leslie, i. 3.

of Monimosk, ii. 244, 262*

of Shives, i. 43.

of Tolwhon, ii. 238.

lord Alex., i. 14.

Alexander, of Blackfoord, i. 93.

sir Arthur, of Craigivar, i. 91.

Arthur, of Pettencreiff, i. 291,

293-

378

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Forbes, Arthur, i. 14.

Henry, minister of Old £arn» i.

162.
Tames, of Corsindse, ii. 473.

— john,of Corse, il 473, 487, 489.
sir John, of Craigivar, i. loi.

— John, of CuUoden, i. 229.

— — of Knapemie, ii. 195.

i. loi.

Patrick, bishop of Aberdeen, L S4 ;

ii.488.

sir Samuell, of Foverane, ii. 195.

Thomas, of Gavile, i. 45.

of Wattertoun, i. 43.

William, bishop of Edinburgh, ii.

473.
. principal of Marischal

college, Aberdeen, ii. 477.

ii. xvii.

Ford, ii. 6x9.

Fordel, i. 292,294; ii. 619; iii. X2I.

Fordun, i. 261-269.

Fordyce, i. 72.74« 78, 87, 244, 310;

ii. 266.
Forfar, ii. 21, 25, 30, J94 ; description

of the parish, by Wil. Seton, i. 270,

and by Ouchterlony of Guinde, ii.

xxvii, 21.

Archibald, earl of, i. 4x7.

Forfarshire, ii. 34 ; iii. 244.

Forfies, i. x86.

Forgan, L 125, 279.

Forgandenny, i. 1 18 ; description of, i.

124.
Forgie, iii. 227.

burn, i. 24 x.

Forginde, i. 241.

Forglen, i. 48, 77, 9X, 244, 310; iii.

227.

lord, i. 77. 7^

For|;ue, i. 4, 36, 85.

Fonsdale river, L X87, 188.

Forkinbum, iii. X35.

Forlagan, iii.. 272.

F^rmakin, i. 42^.

Fonnan, Andre de, archbishop of

Bourges, iii. 258.
Formartin, i. 2, 13, 38, 43, 86, 93, 98 ;

ii. 235. 239i 249. 256 ; iii. 223, 227.
Forres, i. 228, 23X, 232; ii. 307-309.

360, 429, 430, 432, 434, 435» 595-
Forrest, Jord, of Boyne, i. 75.
Forrester, lord, i. 334.

Alex., of Amgibbon, i. 351.

David, of Easter Polder, i. 340,

341.

sir John, of EUiestoun, iii. X26.

Forrig, u. 239.
Fors, iii. 84.

Forse river, i. X84.

laird of. Sg^ Sutherland.

Forsenain, i. 183.

Forsie, i. X84.

Forsway, i. 307.

Forsyth, minister of Stirling, iii xiv,

xvi, 91.
Forteviot, i. Xi8, X24.
Forth, firth of, ii. 344, 346, 357, 368,

371, 37». 377. 387. 40a, 403, 40s.
river of, i. 347 ; ii- 27, 357, 593,

609.
Forther parish, ii. 36.
Fotherance, lord, ii. 35.
Fotheringhame of Pourie, ii. 27, 39»

^ 32, 33. .50.

Foudlen, 1. i, 4, 12.

Foulden, iii. 173, X83.

Fouler, ii. 589.

Foulfoord, iii. 183.

Foulis. Sit Fowlis.

Fottlshiels, iii. 165.

Foulshot Law, iii. 179.

Fountainhall, iii. 1x2.

Foveran, i. 97, 98 ; ii. 238 ; ilL 227.

Fovery, iii. 227.

Fowlaj'e isle, iii. 249.

Fowler, Alexander, of Eassie, i. 277.

Fowlis, i. 3, 139; ii. 34; castle, 416.

-^— Alex., of Eassie, iii. 246.

Fowlsheugh, i. 266 ; iii. 234, 236.

Foyer, I 2x8.

Foyerbeg, i. 220.

Fraser castle, i. 95, 96.

barons, ii. 236, 237, 244, 309.

of Colduthel, ii. 158 «.

thane of Cowie, i. 249.

of Daltolich, i. 225.

of Lovat, ii. 415, 43^434-

of Mulcal, ii. 244.

of Philorth, ii. 45.

of Strichen, i. 44.

of Tyrie, i. 44.

sir Alexander, of Philorth, ii. 236,.

257.

Alexander, i. X72.

Charles, of Inveralochie, i. 4a

Francis, of Findrack, i. 103.

James, of Arhnagaim, i. 815.

of Foyer, i. 2x8.

of T^e, i. 53.

-. minister of Alness, his de-
scription of the parish of Alness, L
212, 2x3.

Jehan de, prieur en Brie, iii.

259.

John, dean of the Isles, ii. xxxii,.

xxxiii.

-*■— Katharine, a cripple, i. 185.

GENERAL INDEX

878

Fraaer, sir Patrick, of Dores, i. 102.

'— Thomas, minister of Boleskixii i.
218.

William, of Brodland, i. 40.

Fraserburgh, i. 40, 47. 49. 5o» 53. 54,
59. 62, 65, 67, 68, 71 ; ii. 143, 236,
257 ; iii. 226, 227.

Freefield, i. 5.

Freeland, i. 124, 424 ; ii. 209.

French alliance with Scotland, iii. 255.

Frenchland, i. 367.

Frendraught, ii. 239, 256.

Freswick, i. 153.

French, island of, iL 191^ 602, 603.

laird of, ii. 96.

Frew ferry, i. 339.

Friars' Kiln, Aberdeen, ii. 481.

Frie Chaillack or Nedd, ii. 539.

Frie Rennach, ii. 539.

Frier moor, iii. 30.

Frood water, iii. 145, 153.

Frosgill, i. 192.

Frostholl, iiL 149.

Frostile bnm, iii. 135.

Frylayhill, i. 59.

Fuda, ii. 177, J29 ; iii. 289.

Fuddes, ii. 238.

Fudore water, iii. 131.

Fula, iL J52.

Fulbar, ii. 209.

Fulford, ii. 619 ; iii. 1 20.

Fullage, iii. 151.

FuUertoun of Dudveck, i. 6, 43 ; ii.
238.

of FuUertoun, i. 4x3 ; iii. 222.

— of Kinnabcr, ii. 42.

of Muchels, i. 254.

'^^' JofaD, of Dudwick, i. 43.

Fulwood, i. 425 ; ii. 207-209.

Famcsk, ii. 549.

Fjmadailes, i. 197.

Fynan, ii* 521.

Fyne river, ii. 145, 146.

Fyrebole, iii. 109.

Fyrers, i. 213.

Fyvie, i. 10, 11, 42, 43. 8*. 83, 98,
99, 310 ; ii. 238, 257 ; iii. 227 ; de-
scription of the parish, by Wm.
Walker, i. 91.

Gadie burn, i. 3, 6, 36 ; ii. S40, 258,

260,586.
Gaillard, ii. 587.
Gainzies, i. 215.
Gairdyne of that ilk, ii. 45, 47, 49,

SO.
Gairistoun, 1. 397.
Gairiocb (Gherioch), ii. 194. 199. 539.

544. 554.

Gairlochhead, ii. 199.

Gairmoor, *iii. 175.

Gaim river, ii. 241-243, 260, 26 1.

Gaimie river, ii. 403.

Gairsa]^, i. 143.

Gairt, ii. 599, 612.

Gaisiron river, ii. 168.

Gaitock bum, iii. 140, 14I.

Galagate, i. 397.

Galashiels, i. 361, 362; ii. 615; iii.

139. 140, 164.
Gala water, i. 362; n. 6x5, 620; ui.

116, 121, 136, 138.
Galbraith, James, of Ballgair, i. 350.
Galbraith's ble, i. 345.
Galbraiths of Balgair, ii. 200.
Galdenocfa, ii. 94.
Galla garr lochy, ii. 158 ».
Gallets, i. 292, 294.
Galloway, ii. 2, ii, X4, 19* 81, 83, 84^

91, 92, 98, 99, 100, 103, 104. »0*.

107, 115, 129* 317 *. 356. 584. 585 ;

iii- 93. 95; customs, xi8; monas-
teries, 122; monuments, etc., ii. 117;
description of, by Andrew^ Symson,
ii. xxvii, 51; pronunciation^ 120;
weights and measures, 121.

bishop of, iL 19^ 53, 62, 64-69,

75, 81, fo, 85, 86, 89, 90, 9a. 94.
95, 99, 122-127.

earl of, iL 59, 61, 70-72, 75. 76,

81, 82, 85, 86, 93. X07, 113.
117.

~ Alexander, iL 483.

John, of Persie, iii. 246.

Gallowgate, Aberdeen, iL 476, 483.

Gallowbill, ii. 475.

Galrae, iii. 240.

Galrow, i. 274.

Galtvray, ii. 57, 132.

Games, ii. Ixix.

Gamrie, i. 41, 46-48, 56, 76, 242 ; ii.
135, 136 ; iiL 227.

Ganile, L 1x6.

Gappall, iii. 236.

Garbeth, i. 349.

Garchel, iL 610.

Garchony, L 336, 337.

Garden, i. 276.

of Troup, i. 42, 45-

Alex., of Troup, his description

of Buchan, ii. zxix, 133.

George, iii. 24.

Gardenn tower, L 351.

Gardens Miln, i. 5, 16.

G are fowl, iii. 28.

Garelfoot, iiL 142, 15a

Garffland, iii. 129.

Gargawach, ii. 169, 1 70, 523.

874

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Gargunnock, i. 337, 339, 351 ; ii. 610;

description of the parish, i. 351*
Garioch, i. 42 ; ii. 205, 239, 244, 249,

250, 258, 262, 266, 312 ; Gordon's

description of, i. i.
— — Alexander, i. ix, 247.

William, i. 365.

Garirhome, ii. 19.

Garlet, i. 307.

Qarlies, i. 400, 402 ; ii. 70, 122.

lord, ii. 70.

Qannouth, il. 307, 429.

Gamiltoun, iii. 1 14.

Gtmock, Patrick, viscount of, ii. 195,

200.

river, u. 590, 591.

Gamtuliy, ii. 598.
Garqueme loch, iii. 135.
Garrabost, ii. 213.
Garriff river, ii. ^40.
Garriokstown, iii. 206.
Garrow-rachon, ii. 601.
Garrowwhellach Nanronow, iii. 267.
Garry river, i. 82, 221 ; ii. 15811, 169,

308, 428, 523.
Garsay, iii. 307.
Garscub, ii. 195, 200, 519.
jGartale, ii. .550.
Gartartan tower, i. 341.
Garteleck, ii. 556.
Garthbeg, i. 219.
Garthland, ii. 95, 96.
Gartin-caber, i. 344; ii. 611.
Gartly, i. 3, 15, 32, 33, 35, 79, 82,

86, 88 ; u. 233, 240, 258.
Gartmoir, i. 219, 341 ; ii. 556, 610.
Gartnafowar, ii. 597.
Gartness, i 348, 420 ; ii. 581.
Gartshore. ii. 193 ; iii. 135.

Alexr., of that ilk, ii. 193.

Gartur, i. 340.

Garu-ald, 1. 312.

Garulanga, iii. 288.

Garvesaloch, ii. 597.

Garvell, i. 326.

Garvellan, iii. 297.

Garvie Choyne, ii. 567.

Garvieicre, ii. 574.

Garvieocre, ii. 574, 575.

Garvies, i. 308.

Garvie visk, ii. J67, 6n.

Garvirie loch, iii. 135.

Garvisk, i. 134, 33^, 337-

Garvit, iii. iii..

Garvock, i. 122, 123, 138, 263, 266,

268, 270, 287, 291.
Garwelajrd, iii. 10 1.
Garyne, iii. 133.
Gasiran river, ii. 522.

Cask, I. 92, 140, 141 ; u. 557, 574.

Gaskinlhoyne, iu 576.

Gasterand, i. 214.

Gastoii castle, ii. 589.

Gatehouse of Fleet, ii. 66.

Gatis isle, iii.r 270.

Gaudiland, iii. 136, 162.

Gaudrie water, i. 14.

Gaule bridge, i. 117.

Gavile, i. 45, 63, 69.

Gawir river, ii. 570.

Gayberjgill, i. 390.

Geaglaise:!, i. 194.

Gearlochie, iii. 284.

Ged lochis, ii. 552.

Geddes, ii. 557.

of Kirkurd, iii. 149, 1 52.

William, minister of Wick, L

162.

Geese generated out of trees, iii. 3.

Gelbrastol, iii. 267.

Gellan, i. 261.

Gelston, ii. 58, 59, 71.

Gemmelscieuch, iii. 166.

Gemrie* See Gamrie.

Geochreamh, i. 193.

Gerff water, iii. 132.

Gersay, i. 179.

Gertnenachre, ii. 574.

Gewsalich, ii. 578.

Ghaill island, i. 190, 191.

Ghealdey, ii. 562.

Gherloch. See Gairloch.

Gherr Gask, ii. 574.

Ghervad ii. 582.

Gibson, Alex., minister of Bower, i.

178.
minister of Cannesbay, L

155-
Arch., mmister of Staplegoidon,

i. 392.
John, of Crawfordtown, iii. 34.

Walter, builder of Gourock har-
bour, iii. 214.

Giese or Ghies, i. 173.
Giffordgate, i. 376.
Giffordhall, i. 377.
Gigarun, iii. 28(5.
Gigay, iii. 265, 289.

Gigha (Gieay), ii. 188 ; iii. 265, 289.
Gieht castle, i. 43, 94 ; ii. 238, 239.
Gilbertfeild, iii. 134-

Gil-Challumkill, ii. 515.

Giichorn, L 275.

Gilchrist, John, minister of Keith, i.

91-
Gillies Pow, i. 304.
Gilliland fells, 1. 386.
Gillimichil, eari of Fife, i. 298.

GENERAL INDEX

875

GUlisby, i. 368.

Gilmanscleuch, i. 357 ; iii. x66.

Gilmanslaw, i. 357.

Gilmerton» i. 374; ii. 618; iii. 114,

120.
Gilmorestown, iii. 205.
Gilkomstoon, iii. 54, 89.
Gilstone, i. 317, 320.
Gilstonebunie, i. 316, 318, 323.
Gilzean, John, of Cautfield, i. 239.
Gimminbie, i. 369.
Ginglais river, ii. 146, 511.
GirchfroD, i. 407.
Girdleness, i. 71 ; iii. 232, 236.
Girmach, i. 239.

Gimego castle, i. 157, 159; iii. 87.
Girthhead, i. 367.
Girthtown, ii. 63-69, 71, 108, no, 126,

Girvan, ii. 1-20, 585, 587.
Girvanmains, ii. 6.
Gisgill, i. 199.

Glack, i. 9, 10, 82, 84 ; iii. 1 50.
Glackriach, i. 44 ; ii. 237.
Gladienoche, iii. 129.
GladsiDuir, i. 290, 373, 376.
Gladstanes of that ilk, iii. 162.
Glammis, i. 272, 277; ii. 21-26; iii.

244.

lord of, ii. 29, 50.

Glanderstoun, ii. 208, 209.

Glasceal, i. 27, 28.

Glascluny, ii. 572.

Glasealhill, i. 31.

Glasgow, i. 416 ; ii. 204, 208, 356, 579,

586, 593» 594* 605-607.

college, monuments in, iii. 255.

Glash-Chailly, ii. 566.

Glashdur water, ii. 578, 579, 382.

Glashlayg, ii. 568.

Glas Letyr, ii. 539, 544, 552.

Glasnick, ii. 77.

Glaspine water, iii. 132.

Glass, i. 26, 32, 35, 79» 88» 245.

Glassach, i. 73, 74 ; ii. 234.

Glassaiy, ii. 147- M9> 186, 512, 513.

Glasse isles, iii. 279.

Glassenbervie, i. 386.

Glasserton, ii. 70, 78, 81, 82, 85, 86,

88, 98, 115, 1X6, 122, 126 ; iii. 128,

129.
Glasvin mountain, ii. 436 ; iii. 97.
Glatness, i. 151.
Gledstones, James, minister of Graitney ,

i. 387.
Gledswood, iii. 175.
Gleghom, iii. 1 14.
Glemoir bum, ii. 543.
Glen, ii. 27.

Glen Aermy water, ii. 576.

Airtnay, i. 131 ; ii. 609, 612.

Almond, iu 538.

Ample, ii. 593, 594.

Glenany bum, ii. 609.
Glenap, ii^ i, 584, 585 ; iii. 56.
Glenarindill, ii. 186, 526.
Glenavaryn, ii. 551.
Glenayes, ii. 19.
Glenbank, i. 314 ; ii. 608.
Glenbaristill, ii. 174, 522, 525.
Glenbeg, ii. 542, 543, 569.
Glen Bennacnar, 1. 228 ; ii. 574.
Glenbervie, i. 247, 248, 261, 264-269,

429.
Glentx>cky, ii. 597.
Glenbreagrie, ii. 188, 527.
Glenbreck, iii. 153.
Glenbreiman, ii. 598.
Glenbretill, ii. 583.
Glenbuchat, i. 19, 20, 22, 26-28, 37.
Glenbuckie, i. 335.
Glenbuick, i. 221.
Glenburn bridge, i. 323.
Glencaillich, ii. 563.
Glencaira, i. 395, 397 ; ii. 55, 61, 108 ;

iii. 204-206.

earle of, ii. 210, 603 ; iii. 205.

family, ii. 197.

Glencalmidill, ii. 167, 521.

Glencarrich, iii. 18.

Glencars, ii. 570.

Glencarvie, i. 20, 21.

Glencash, ii. 613.

Glenchassil, ii. 546, 570.

Glenclought, iii. 55, 57*

Glen Clowonie, ii. 574*

Glencoen, ii. 157, 1581 5^7. 5^8, 596,

597.

water, 11. 157.

Glencommon, L 259, 428.

Glenconigh, ii. 550.

Glenconnel, ii. 548.

Glencorf, i. 391.

Glencorse. i. 213; ii. 619, 622; iii.

120.
Glencrow, ii. 565.
GlencuU, i. 199 ; iii. X06.
Glendarvan, ii. 519.
Glendary, iii. 139.
Glenderune, ii. x6o.
Glendessorie, ii. 160, 519.
Glendevon, i. I x8, 308.
Glendie, i. X98.
Glendo or Glendu, i. 199 ; ii. 556, 560,

563.
Glendo Beg, i. 221 ; ii. 556.
Glendochart, ii. 534, 564, 565, 594.
Glendo Moir, ii. 221, 556.

876

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Glendusk, iL 14, aa

Glenea, iiL 191.

Glencagles, i. 131, 137, 313.

Glen Earaen, L ai.

Glenediflf, ii. 153.

Glen-Eigise, laird of, ii. 611,

Glenelcheg, ii. 414, 541, 543.

Glen-EIg, iL 155. 156, 174, aao, 359,

^ Sn, 525, 542, 543i 549» 552, 611.

Glen Engnie, ii. 514.

Glen Ennichy iL 57S.

Glenerny, L 329,

Glenesk, L 106, 107 ; iL 24.

Glenevish. S^^ Glen- Nevis.

Glenfaighin, iL 152, ^14.

Glenfalloch, L 345 ; iL 604.

Glenfarqahar, L 267-269 ; iiL 240.

Glenfeanain, iL 167.

Glenfiddichy iL 231.

Glenfinglai, L 134, I35. 337 ; J»- 5^6,

613.
Glenforsay, iii. 276.
Glenfroon, ii. 198, 199.
Glenfyne, iL X46, 511.
Glengaber, iii. 30, 34, 41, 43, 56.
Glengairn, iL 241, 260.
Glengardin, L 19, 23.
Glengarif, ii. 549.
Glengarry, iL 169-171; iL 312, 523,

laird of, ii. 168, 1 7 1, 522, 524.

Glen Gasiran, iL 168, 522.

Glengavells, iiL 134.

Glengeill, L 134, 135-

Glengeisacham, iL 548.

Glengerach, i. 91.

Glengoilin, iL 146, 5x2.

Glengonar water, iii. 51 > 52, 132, 134.

Glengoure, i. 2ix ; iL 165, 520.

Glengreveren, ii. 154, 516, 596.

Glengrivy, ii. 553.

Glengyle, iL 566, 613.

Glenhaltin, iL 582.

Glenharie, iL 176, 528.

Glenhighton, iii. X52.

Glenholm, iiL 1 52, 155, 156.

Glen lyla, iiL 56.

Glenkaffitill, iL 165.

Glen Kalladar, ii. 574.

Glen Keandrum, ii. 565.

Glen Kendglass, iL X52, 511, 5x5, 565.

Glenkennes, ii. 63.

Glenkem, L 37.

Glenkindie, L 19, 20, 22, 37.

Glenkirk, iiL 152.

Glenkleynie, ii. 570.

Glenkotho, iii. 152.

Glenkqymbre burn, ii. 570.

Glenkynky, ii. 597.

' Glenlair, i. 396.

Glenlikern, iL 609.
I Glenlivet, L 37, 87 ; iii. 243.
; Glenloch, L X82.
! Glen Loch Larig, ii. 565.

Glenlochy, ii. 535, 563, 564.

Glenluce, ii. 86-1x4, X22, 125, 126,
356, 605 ; iiL 128.

Glenlucheroo, L 131.

Glenlttde, iii. 152.

GlenlufT, L 22.

Glenluy (Glenley), ii. 160, 169 and cr,
170, 519, 523.

GlenlyoD, ii. J49, 562, 563.

Glen Maen, ii. 613.

Glen Marky, ii. 577.

Glen Mastrachan, iL 558.

Glen Medill, iL 522.

Glenmoir, L 213; iL 543, 546, S47.

569.570,^78; iii- 24*.
Glen Monochill, iL 565.
Glenmoriftton, i. 221, 223; iL 171, 524,

539.548,549.. „
Glenmoy water, i. 285.
Glen Muick, L 106, X07 ; ii. 242, 260,

546,562,570; iiL 97,
Glen na Moy, ii. 559.
Glen Muir, li. 588.
Glenmuir-shaw, ii. 588.
Glennaip. St§ Glenap.
Glennaray, ii. 147.
Glen-Nevis, iL X58, 163, 169, 170, 518,

523. 597.
Glen-noo, ii. 515, 565.
Glennuchan water, iii. 132.
Glenny, iL 567.
Gleo of Barr tour, ii. 205.
Glen Ogle, ii. 565.
Glenorran, L 2XX.
Glenour, ii. 6, 2a
Glenowchan, ii. 548.
Glen-owgader, ii. 61 x.
Glenpean, iL 160, 5x9.
Glen of Pluscardie, iL 595.
Glen PotUig, ii. 599*
Glenprossine, i. 2iSx ; iL 30, 593 ; iii.

**5. .. ..
Glenquhantie, 11. 37.
Glenqnhitle, L 49.
Glenquiech, L 286; ii. 22.
Glenrarey. ii. 512, 534.
Glenrath, iiL ifp,.
Glen Reshert, iL 538. .
Glen Rinaeg, ii. S43-
Glen Rorie, ii. 539.
Glenroy, iL 161, 169, 170, 173, 523,

575. 597.
Glen Rumbisdaill, ii. 582.
Glens, L 350 ; ii. 20a

GENERAL INDEX

377

Glensaidill, ii. i86, 526.

Glenaassent ii. 570.

Qlen-3c«Lfiadell, ii. 520.

Glen-Scaxian, ii. 521.

Glenshell, ii. 543.

Glenshie, ii. 36.

Glenshni, iii. 99.

Glenskiach, ii. ^55.

Qlenspeachan, li 597.

Glenspean, ii. 161, 169, 170, 523.

Glen Stra Bran, ii. 551.

Glen Stra Farror, ii. 552.

Glenstrath, ii. 149.

Glenstree or Glen-SUae, iL 147, 513,

. 5^5. 599.

Glensyro or Glenshiro, ii. 146, 147,

512, 534, 612.
Glentanar, i. xv, 25, 32.
Glentarff» ii. 171, 428, 429, 524.
GlenUrkie, i. 116, 118.
GlenUy, i. 3"» 3U-
Qlentig, ii. 20.
Glentillisdaill water, ii. 582.
Glentirran, i. 351.
Glen Toalmen, ii. 573.
Glentoan, iL 605.
Glen-Tmyme, ii. 576, 577.
Glentamovir, ii. 609.
Glenturret, i. 221.
Glen Tarretan, ii. 538.
Glenty, ii. 6x3.
Glen-tyiss, ii. ^96.
Glen Tyrren, ii. 609*
Glenui, i. 28.
Glen Urchay, ii. 147, I49> 5"-Sl6,

536,^37.564. 566, 567,570.

laird of, ii. 147, 148, 153, 154.

Gleniire, ii. 608.

Glen wiaig, ii. 550, 582.

Gleny, L 341.

Olenyla, i. 109 ; ii. 23 ; iiu 148^ 223.

Gleswall, ii. 3a

Glerelg, iii. 19.

Glongaiipster, iii. 266.

Gloret, ii. 579.

Gods or Gookcraft, iii. 182.

Gogar, ii. 615, 616; iii. 116, 117.

^— house, Alloa, i. 309,

Goilline river, ii. 146, 512.

Gold mining, iiL xviii, 16, 30-47r 55»

134. 307.
Goldieslee, i. 383.
Golspie, ii. 420, 440, 441 ; iiL 99, 103-

106.
Golvail, L 182, i86«
Goodie water, i. ^39, 340.
Goodtrees, iL 618 ; iii. 120.
Gorat bum, ii. 591.
Gordon of Beldomy, i. 80, 88.

Gordon of Blairmad, i. 75.

of Carnborrow, L 82.

of Carnousie, i. 77..

of Cloneyard, ii. 98.

of CoUestoune, ii. 45.

of Fouls, i. 3.

of Gight, i. 94 ; ii. 238.

of Gordonstoun, iL xliiL

of Kirkhill, i. 3, 16,

general, of Laithers, i. 42.

' of Law, afterwards of Wardhouse,

i. 3. 4.

of Muireaik, i. 74.

of Nethermuir, ii. 238.

of Newtoun, i. 5

of Rothiemay, ii. 234, 238, 255.

of Rothney, i. 4.

of Sheelagreen, L 5. .

duke of, L 88.

Adam, lord Aboyne, iii. 59.

of Auchindown, i.. 14.

sir Adam, of Park, i. 87.

Dr. Alex., of Balnacraig, L 106.

Alex. , of Cluny, iL 487.

of Kinmundie, i. 45.

of Logie, i. 40.

sir Alexander, of Navidell, iii.

105.

Charles, of Buthlaw, 1. 45.

sir George, of Edinglassie, J. 80.

George, of Glengerach, L 90.

of Huntly, iL 484, 487.

sir James, of Park, i. 74, 78,

82.

James, of Craichlaw, ii. 77.

of Ellon, L 43.

: — parson of Rothiemay, iL v,

vi, xiv, xviii, xix, xx, xxiii-xxiv,
xliii, xliv,- xlvii.

of Techmurie, i. 41.

' J^n, iL 412.

John, of Grainge, ii. 77.

of Neihcr Muire, i. 44.

Jok, son of Huntly, i. 81.

lady Mary, iii. xiv, 93.

sir Robert, of Gordonstone, i.

236 ; iL xvi, xviii, 420 ; description
of Sutherland, 417.

of Straloch, i. 84 ; ii. xiii-xx,

xxii-xxiv, xxxiii, xxxvi, xlii, 355,
474 ; notes to the map of old Scot-
land, ii. 355.

tutor of Sutherland, iL 440 ;

iiL X03, 104.

Thomas, of Craig Elie, i. 40.

son of Huntly, i. 81.

William, his description of the

parish of Murthlack, i. 245.

of Birkinburn, L 9a

378

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Gordon, William, of Craichlaw, ii. 88.
professor in Aberdeen, i. 85;

ii. 474. 488.
minister of Alford, his description

of the Garioch, i. u
Gordon bum, i. 82.

castle, i. 76, 24 x, 242.

Gordonhall, i. j68.
Gordon kirk, iii. I73»

mains, iii. 177.

Gordonstoun, i. 230, 232 ; ii. 433 ; iii.

206.
Gore river, ii. 619.
Gorgie, ii. 617 ; iii. 118.
Gormlogh, ii. 436 ; iii. 97.
Gormock, ii. 572.
Gormsone, Donald, iii. 260, 282-284,

290-292.
Gorrok, iii. 127.
Gorthie, i. 139.
Gorton, ii. 617 ; iii. 119.
Goseland, iii. 151.
Gosfoord, i. 374, 375 ; iii. 114.
Gosloch, iii. 140.
Gotheray, son of Fergus, iii. 260.
Gour river, ii. 520.
Gourdon, i. 266 ; iii. 236.
Gourdy, ii. 572.
Gourlay, Robert, of Keppdarroch, i.

352.
Gourock, ui. 214*
Gonry burn, i. 211.
Gout-well of Larg, ii. 70.
Govean» William, of Drumwhassill, i.

348.
Govenberry, iii. 162.
Government of Scotland, ii. 39i»
Gow alias Smith, a pirate^ i.

142.
Gowloch, ii. 601, 603.
Gowrie, Carse of, i. 117, 141 ; ii.

23-

description of, iii. 221.

Goynack (Guinach) river, ii. 574.
Goynie burn, ii. 578.
Graddockboum, ii. 68, 69, 112.
Graden, iii. 178.
Graham's castle, ii. 581.

dyke, i. 321, iii. 124, 239.

niuir, i. 322.

walls, iii. 148.

Graham, or Graeme, lord, ii. 33.

of Bloatwood, i. 38^.

of Braco, i. 130.

of Claverhouse, ii. 27.

of Drynie, i. 206.

of Duntroone, ii. 31.

of Fintrie, i. 350 ; ii. 33.

of Morphey, iii. 240.

Graham, or Graeme, Alexander, of
Duchray, i. 340, 349 ; descriprition of
parishes in Perthshire, etc, L 334,
344.352.

David, of Orchill or Ochill, L

130. 138.

of Pitcaim, i. 122, 138.

minister of Vachop, i. 392.

George, bishop of Orkney, i. 147,

151.

James, of Airth, i. 327.

of Braco, i. 138.

of Bucklyvie, i. 351.

of Gartur, i. 340.

— of Garvock, L 122, 123, 138.

a/ias M'Gregor of Glengyle».

i- 336.

of Kilmanan, L 349.

of Newtoun, i. 125.

sir John, i. 319, 322.

John, of Blairsesnock, i. 34a

collonell John, of Claverhouse, ii*

98.

John, of Drunkie, i. 341.

of Dugalstoun, ii. 195.

of Killern, i. 349.

of Meiklewood, i. 352,

of Wester Bowhaple, i. 339.

Margaret, iii. 148.

Mungo, of Gorthie, L 139.

Patrick, of Inchbrakie, i. 139.

in Leitchtoun, i. 340.

Robert, of Gartmore, i. 341, 353.

Walter, of Gleny, i. 341.

of Kilmardiny, iL 195.

William, of Mondovie, i. 341.

minister of Ewb, i. 394.

Graimefoord, ii. 63.

Grainge. See Grange.

Grainger, James, minister of Kinneff^

i. 258, 259.
Graitneyhill, i. 385, 386.
Graitny. See Gretna.
Grampian mountains, ii. 224, 241, 249,

250, 251, 259, 358, 360, 470. 482.
Gramsay, iii. 313.
Grange, i. 73, 78, 87, 88 ; ii. 32, 50,

77> 615, 617, 618; iii. 116, 119.

laird of, ii. 113.

of Auchtermuchty, i. 295.

• of Barrie, ii» 49.

bum, i. 333.

castle, iii. 129.

on Urr, i. 396

Grangehill, I 231 ; ii. 432.
Grange Pow, i. 323, 326.
Grant, laird of, ii. 171.

of Dunlugies, i. 42.

Archibald, of Monymusk, i. 95.

GENERAL INDEX

379

Grant, James, of Delvers, iii. 241.

Ludovic, his description of In-
verness parishes, i. 204.

Patrick, of Rothiemurchus, iii. 240.

Thomas, of Amtilly, i. 90.

Granton, ii. 617.

near Mofiat, i. 366.

Easter and Wester, iii. 118.

Gray, lord, iii. 246.

of Creicfa, i. 200.

of Halkertoune, ii. 26 ; iii. 245.

of Nether LifT, ii. 34, 50.

of Sheeves, ii. 238.

of Tarbcg, ii. 26.

Abraham, iii. 34, 35.

Gilbert, principal . of Marischal

college, Aberdeen, ii. 474, 477.

Patrick, of Aberdeen, ii. 474.

William, ii. 27, 474.

of Aberdeen, ii. 474.

James, minister of Keitins, i. 281.

John, minister of Aberlady, i. 376.

Gray-mares-tai], ii. ill.

Greame, ii. 549.

Great isle, iii. 274.

Grebil bay, ii. 426.

Greddock, i. 408.

Green, the, ii. 245, 264, 474, 481.

island, iii. 270.

of Macchirmore, i. 403; ii. 117.

Greenand castle, ii. 1,9, 19.

Greenbrae, i. 327.

Greenburn, i. 390.

Green forret, ii. 609, 613.

Greengelt, iii. 174.

Greenhill ford, i. 380.

Greenknow, iii. 176.

Greenlaw, ii. 109, no; iii. 173, 179,
180, 185.

Green Loning, i. 313, 314.

Greenock, ii. 205, 210; iii. 127, 214.

laird of, ii. 210.

Greeny hill, i. 236.

Greenyards, i. 315.

Greggen rivulet, ii. 58.

Gregory the Great, i. 4.

James, iii. 17, 21.

Greiff water, i. 423-425 ; ii. 206-208 ;
iii. 125, 126, 213.

Greistone, iii. 143.

Gremise, iii. 6.

Grenam, ii. 213.

Gretna (Graitney), Black's description
of the Parish, i. 381, 387.

Green, i. 371, 387.

Grierson, John, of Berjarge, iii. 207.

^— of Kepinoch, iii. 207.

^— > sir Robert, of Lagg) ii' 7 1 ; iii* 204.

Grinen, ii. 585.

Grinen-dair-dyr, ii. 563.
Grisamess, iL 583.
Groddich, ii. 566.
Grott of Wares, i. 153.
Grouban, ii. 582.
Groundless loch, iii. 135.
Grubbet, iii. 162.
Grudie, i. 193.
Gnielldikes, iii. 181.
Gruids, iii. loi.
Grumbbegg, i. 188.
Grumbmore, i. 188.
Grunyeord, ii. 541 ; iii. 295.
Guardbridge (Gair Bridge), i. 120.
Gugil, i. 197.

Guud, William, of Aberdeen, ii. 477,
482.

minister of Peart, ii. 41.

Guir or Grunords icra, ii. 568.
Guir or Grunords ocra, ii. 568.
Guisachan (Geusachan), ii. 550.
Gulan, i. 378.

Wm., minister of Ladykirk, i. 380.

Gulmaly, iii. 98.

Gulraw, ii. 41.

Gun, George, of Braemore, i. 165.

Gunna, ii. 218, 219.

Gnnnershaw, i. 326.

Gunns, ii. 442.

Gunsgreen, iii. 183.

Gurir, ii. 568.

Guthrie, sir John, of Lutquhairn, i. 45.

John, ofWesthall, iii. 246.

of Carsbank, ii. 28.

of that ilk, ii. 47, 50.

of Memus, ii. 29.

of Wester Seatoune, ii. 45.

minister of Ketlins, i. 281.

minister in Dundee, ii. 32.

Guydie river, ii. 609-611.
Guynd, ii. 47.

laird of, ii. 45.

Gyinord, iii. 271.
Gyrach, ii. 535.

Hackbt of Cairntoune, i. 75.

Hadden, iii. 162.

Haddington, ii. 357 ; description of
the burgh, iii. 65. See also East
Lothian.

earl of, iii. 8.

Haddo, i. 40.

Haddoch, ii. .554.

Hagbrae, ii. 619; iii. 121.
I Haggs, i. 418, 419 ; iii. 134.
I Haik, ii. 606, 607.
I Hailes, ii. 622.

I Haining, i. 3>6,355, 35^; iii. 140, 167.
I Hainshawsyde, iii. 181.

880

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Hairhead. See Harehead.
Hairhope, iii. 148.
Hairshagy, i. 367.
Haitlie of Sneep, iii. 177.

James, i. 141.

Halcro, laird of, iii. 5.

Haldane of Gleneagles, i. 137, 353.

John, of Lendrick, i 338

Mungo, of Gleneagles, i 124.

Haleuray, iii. 293.

Halflakiil, ii. 619 ; iii. 120.

Half Morton, i. 387, 388, 391, 393.

Halgreen, i. 266.

Hahburton, i. 280; iii. 179.

of Fodderance, i. 2S0.

of Morislaw, iii. 162.

of Pitcurr, i. 279 ; ii. 35 ; iii. 222.

John, minister of Graitney, i. 387.

Halkertoun, i. 263, 268, 270 ; ii. 26w
Halket, sir Peter, of Pitfirren, i. 287,

29a
Halkhead, ii. 202.
Halkirk, i. 151, 162, r64, 169, 170, 175,

176, 179; iii. 83, 86.
Hall of Falbar, ii. 202.

of Forest castle, ii. 244, 263.

Hall dikes, i. 368.

Halladale, i. 182, 183; ii. 422* 424,

„426, 559, 560 ; iii. 97.

Hallburn, i. 81.

Hallhead, i. 31.

Hallies, i. 368.

Hallmyre, iii. 147.

Hallreule, iii. 137.

Hall tree, ii. 620 ; iii. 121.

Haltoun, iii. 117, 122.

lord, ii. 31.

Haly, William, minister of Muthill, i.

133-
Halyards, i. no, in, 114; iL 615;

iii. 116, 150.
Halyclay, i. 175. .
Hally isles, iii. 297.
Ham, iii. 84.

Hambrough haven, iii. 60.
Hamilton, i. 414, 416, 422; ii. 586,

594,606; iii. 134, 135-

duke of, i. 415, 422, 423.

marquis of, ii. 186, 527.

of Achintosban, ii. 200.

of Bargen)r,ii. 6.

of Barns, ii. 195, 200.

of Monkland, i. 419.

of Parkhead, i. 422.

of Prestoun, ii. 208.

of Raith, i. 422.

of Roshall, ii. 193.

'. ofShcrrell,!. 4«.

ofWishaw,i. 297.

Hamilton, Alexander, of Coldcoat,

maoer, iii. 147.

of Murdoston, i. 420.

lord Claud, iii. 218.

Claud, of Bams, it 196.

of Raploch, ii. 196.

Helen, spouse of Mathew, earl of

Lennox, ii. 203.
James, lord Fasley, earl Aber-

corn, ii. 202.

James, of Dalzell, L 422.

of Finnart, ii. 19$.

of Hutchieston, ii. 195.

sir James, of Rosehall, i. 418, 419,

422.
sir John, of Orbestoun, ii. 194,

203.

John, minister of Graitney, i. 387.

Robert, of Romanno, iii. 147,

• Susanna, wife of Murray of Ro-
manno, iii. Z47.
Thomas, minister of Bothvell, i.

416.
William, of Orbistoa, i. 422 ; iiL

255.

of Wishaw, i. 420-

minister of Bothwell, i. 416.

Hamlot Came, i. 298,
Handa island, i. 197 ; ii. 442.
Handiswood, ii. 616; iiL 117.
Hangingshaw, i. 359, 360 ; iii. 139,

165.
Hanglix hill, iii. 61.
Hannay of Sorbie, ii. 81.
Haptoun, iii. 150.
Hara, iii. 56, 309.
Hardacres, iii. 178.
Harden, iii. 137.
Hardes Myln, iii. 177.
Hardie, Andrew, minister of Forgan-

denny, i. 126.
Hard Well, iii. 135, 137.
Harehead, iii. 139, 140, 165.
Harelaw. See Harlaw.
Haremoor loch, iii. 140.
Harestaines, iii. 149.
Hariheuch, iii. 177.
Harin^ of I^thindie, ii. 572.
Harkeis, iii. 180.
Harkhouse, iii. 150.
Harland bum, i. 175.
Harlaw (Hairlaw), i. 6, 7, 8, 17, 18 ; ii.

240, 259, 473; iu- »79; battle of,

i. 6, 17 ; ii. 49.
HamtuUich, ii. 571.
Harperden, iii. 114.
Harpool, ii. 583.
Harris, ii. 181-184, 188, 189* i

530-533 ; »"• 299.

r ai2, 352,

GENERAL INDEX

381

Hartdeoch water, iii. 132.

Hartfeild, iii. 141, 153.

Harthill, L 6, 7.

Hartlaw, iii. 179.

Hartoun hill, iii. 132.

Hartree house, iii. 151.

Hartside, iii. 132, 174.

Hartwood, ii. 616 ; iii. 1 17.

Hartwoodburn, ii. 615 ; iii. 167, 356.

Hartwoodmyres, i. 358 ; iii. 167.

Har^s Gurn, i. 34.

Hasil Cory, ii. 567.

Hasil isle, iii. 270, 272.

Hassinden, iii. 158.

Hassindenbank, iii. 158.

Hassock, i. 407.

Hast on, ii. 58, 115.

Haswell, iiL 150.

Hatchetnise, iiL 178.

Hatbpole, iii. 151.

Hatton, i. 42, 93; ii. 616, 621 ; iii. 151.

Hattonknow, iii. 151.

Haughes of Myrton, i. 83.

Haughs, i. 90.

Hauehton, i. 21 n.

Haukrig, i. 181.

Haulster, i. 160.

Hava island, ii. 212.

Haven, iii. 183.

Hawick, i. 363 ; iii. 136, 137, 158, 160.

Hawkshaw, iii. 153.

Hawkwood, iii. 126, 127.

Hawrary Bc^, iii. 295.

Moir, iii. 295.

Hawthomden, ii. 617, 621; iii. 119,

122.
Haw-wood, iii. 183.
Hay of Aimbath, i. 73.

of Asleed, i. 79.

of Breyingtoun, iii. 247.

of Dclgattie, ii. 238.

of Innemytie, ii. 571.

of Ranfield, ii. 203.

Alexander, of Ariullan, ii. 87.

advocate, L 376.

— — apothecary in Edinburgh, iii.

XV.

— -* Andrew, of Mountblairy, i. 77.

sir Charles, of Park, ii. 89, 90,

114, 116.

Gilbert, lord, high constable, iii. 9.

^— Patrick, of Shannalie, ii. 37.

sir Thomas, i. 376.

of Nunland, iii. 114.

minister of Couper, ii. 36.

Hays^r, ii. 177, 181, 530 ; iii. 291.
Heading hill, Aberdeen, ii. 478.
Headless Corse, i. 384, 385.
Headloch, iii. 135.

Heart loch, ii. 4.

Heather thatched churches, i. xv.

Heatherweck, ii. 42.

Heatley of Mellerstain, iii. 184.

Hebri rock, ii. 222.

Hebridean islands, ii. 412, 413.

Hecklespath, iii. 177.

Hedderwick, i. 273.

Heddir isle, iii. 270.

Heglischoen, ii. 550.

Heglish-Colmekill, ii. 558.

Heglis-Stinchenach, ii. 612.

Hei-feald, ii. 584.

Helens Chappell, ii. 368 ; iii. 125.

Hellesay, iii. 289.

Helliden, iii. 157.

Helmburn, iii. 167.

Helmsdale, ii. 420, 441 ; iii. 100, 105.

river, ii. 359, 419, 438.

Helsker Nagaillon, iii. 291.
Hemprigs, i. 158, 239; ii. 433.

family, i. 159- 161.

Hempstcr, i. 157.
Henbane, ii. 73.
Henderland, iii. 56, 141, 152.
Henderson, sir Robert, of Fordel, i. 292.

Thomas, minister of Graitney, i,

387.

W., translator of Ben's Orkney y

iii. viii.

William, of Bardister, iii. viii.

Henrieshill, i. 323.

Henschaw water, iii. 133.

Hepburn, prior of St. Andrews, i. 299.

of Keith, i. 254.

of Monkrig, iii. 114.

Alexander, his description of

Buchan, i. 38.

William, his description of Dun-
ning, i. 118.

Herbcrtshire, i. 326, 333, 348.

castle, i. 332.

Herdmanseat, 1. 393.

Herdrige, iii. 178.

Hering of Litle Bar, ii. 572.

of Ovir and Nethir Fomochts, ii.

572.

of Wester and Midle Gormocks,

ii. 572.

Heriot, ii. 620, 622.

Heriot's hospital, ii. 626.

Heriothouse, iii. 121.

Hermischiels, ii. 616; iii. 117.

Hermiston, ii. 616; iii. 114, 117.

castle, ii. 616.

Hermitage castle, ii. 606 ; iii. 138.

water, iii. 136.

Heron of that ilk, i. 402, 403, 405,.
407,408.

382

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Heron of Lethintie, iii. 222.

-— Andrew, of Bargally, i. 407, 408.

sir Cuthbert, of Chipchase, i. 407.

captain, 407.

Herring, shower of, ii. 71 ; price of, 81.

Herrish, ii. 210.

Hesbens Know, i. 239.

Hestoun, ii. 130, 131.

Heuchbrae, iii. 152.

Heuche, iii. 1 14.

Heuchhead, i. 115, 117 ; iii. 236.

Heuck, i. 321.

Hew or How burn, i. 177.

Hiadeirr,ii. 607.

Higgens Neuck, i. 326, 328.

Higgins of Beemerside, iii. 176.

High-Chesters, iii. 183.

High constable, office of, iii. 7.

Hilary, St., i. 86.

Hilderstone silver mines, iii. 47, 50, 54.

Hill, i. 291, 292.

James, minister of Kilpatrick, i.

398.
Hillend, iii. 183.
Hill ofConsencon, iii. 197.

of Currin, i. 35.

of Fair, i. loi, 103, 104, 259,

260, 428.

of Foulis, i. 31,

Hillhead, i. 102, 421.

Hilliard, Nicholas, goldsmith, iii. 39,

40.
Hilslope, iii. 162.
Hilton, i. 378 ; iii. 173, 182.

of Calder, ii. 368; iii. 125.

Hindhope, iii. 166.

Hindside, iii. 179.

Hippotam or water horse, i. 347.

Hirsel, iii. 178.

Hirsellaw, iii. 178.

Hirta, iii. 28, 94, 291.

Hittringbum loch, iii. 140.

Hobumhead or Howburn, i. 173; iii.

84, 149, 180, 183.
Hodge, John, his account of remarkable

places in Selkirkshire, i. 355.
Hodham, lairds of, i. 370.
Hog, sir Roger, of Harkeis, iii. 180.
Ho^ghill, i* 396.
Hoip, ii. 441.
Hold of Glentay, i. 313.
Holdamkirk, i. 369.
Holdamstones, i. 370.
Holehouse, i. 318.
Holille, iii. 164.
Holledell, iii. 109.
HoUom Ocra, ii. 582.

Vera, ii. 582.

HoUowdown hill, battle of, iii. 59.

Holm (Howm), i. 142; ii. 212, 555;

iii. 152, 308.
Holms (Howm) water, ii. 555 ; iiL 145,

152, 156.
Holy island, i. 190.

loch, ii. 144, 194.

wells, ii. 154, 187.

Holy rood, ii. 618, 622, 626, 627 ; iii.

123-
Holywood, i. 395 ; ii. 55, 56 ; iii. 205.
Home. See Hume.
Honach, ii. 557.
Honyman, Andrew, master of Kinneff,

i. 258.

James, minister of Kinneff, i. 258.

Hope, river, i. 194 ; ii. 561 ; iii. 109.

of Rankeilour, i. 303.

sir Alex., of Kerss, L 333.

Hopetoun, earl of, i. 293.

Hophead, iii. 149.

Hopringle, ii. 620; iii. 121.

HornofWesthall, i. 6.

Homdean, i. 379, 381 ; iii. 182.

Homend, iii. 183.

Horse isle, iii. 28cx

Horsecoats, iii. 168.

Hosach, John, minister of Creicb, i.

203.
Hospitalfield, ii. 45.
Hottrolburn, iii. 167.
Houden, iii. 167.
House of the Hill, ii. 70, 209.
Houstoun, ii. 207, 210; iii. 126, 127.

laird of, ii. 210.

Patrick, of Drummaston, ii. 84.

Thomas, minister of Boleskin, i.

21S.

William, of Colreoch, ii 85.

Howbog, iii. 181.
Howcleuch, iii. 168.
I Howdine, i. 358.

Howdoun, Over and Nether, iii. 174.
I Howes, i. 371.
i Howfoord, i. 60 ; iii, X67.
How^ate, iii. 133.
Howie, Robert, principal of Marischal

college, Aberdeen, ii, 477.
— professor, St. Andrews, ii.

473-

Howlawes, iii. 179.

Howm. Su Holm.

Hownacklead, ii. 584.

Hownam, iii. 159.
' Howslack, iii. 151.

Hoy, i. 173; "»• 3>2.
I of Cjourdy, ii. 572.

Huckster wynd, Aberdeen, iL 478.

Hughton, i. 28.

Huilure, iii. 293.

GENERAL INDEX

388

Humble, ii. 6l6; iiL 112, 114, 117.
Hume parish, ii. 557; iii. 177.

of Graden, iii 178.

of HalyburtoD, iii. 179.

of Rennetside Heads, iii. 178.

of St. Leonards, iii. 1 75.

George, of Argatie, i. 337.

sir George, oT Manderstoun, iii.

183.

— Hary, of Karnes, iii. 178.

Jo., minister of Ewis, i. 394.

sir Patrick, of Polwart, iii. 180.

minister of Ladykirk, i. 380.

Hundelshope, iii. 150.

Hundilie, iii. 137.

Huoleim, i. 192.

Hunter of Baldovie, ii. 37.

— of Balgillo, ii. 32.

James, late of Murrays, ii. X95.

Hunter's Hill, iii. 152.

Hunterstoun, ii. 592.

Hunthill, iii. 137.

Huntingtouo, David, earl of, ii. 392,

405.
Huntingtour, i. 3x0.
Huntlie, Berwickshire, iii. 176.
Huntliewood Knock, iii. 176.
Huntly, i. 5, 33.

castle, i. 1,2, 12, 13, 86, 243.

earl of, i. 76, 81.

marquis of, ii. 28, 163, 174, 230-

233, 242, 243, 250, 253.2?5, 260,

261, 412, 423, 435. 478, 480.
Hurdyhill, i. 207.
Hurillbury, iii. 135.
Hutchinfeild, iii. 151.
Hutchison, George, of Monkwood, i.

411.

James, minister of Inch, ii. 91.

Hnttonn, i. 368, 378 ; iiL 173, 182.
Hy island, ii. 316, 317, 3x9.
Hyndcastle moss, ii. 23.
Hyndhope, i. 357.
Hynmoorwell, iii. 136.

IcOLMKiLL. See lona.

Icrach, ii. 5^5.

Idin water, iii. X36.

Idoch, i. 44> 92.

Idvie, ii. 44, 47-

Idyle isle, iii. 271.

Ifurde [? Hurte], iii. 294.

Ila. See Islay.

Ilan Isa, ii. 222 ; iii. 296.

Ilan ni Liy, ii. 22 x.

Ilan na Muymoir, ii. 559.

Illand Dabar mountain, ii. X87.

lUandfynan, ii. 166.

Illandnagowre, ii. X91.

lUandtirrein castle, ii. X67.

Illeas river, ii. 359.

I lien na Muye, ii. 607.

lUieston, ii. 6x5.

Imerska, iii. 273.

Impotency cured, iii. X2.

Inch, Inche, or Insh, i. 3, 4, 8, i$, x6,

35» 36, 85, 86; ii. 89-95, 98, 1x4.

1x6, 122, 126, 240, 258; iii. X20,

128.
Inchaffrie, i. X40.

abbot of, ii. 609.

Inch-Ayle, ii. 147, 512.
Inchbair, i. X04.
Inchbonie, iii. x66.
Inchbraik, ii. 37, 42 ; iii. 247.
Inchbraikie, i. 139.
Inchbroak, i. 232 ; ii. 433.
Inchbucklin brae, ii. 614.
Inchcailloch, i. 335, 336, 342, 344,

345; ii. 60X, 602.
Inch Conackan, i. 345.
Inch-Chonill castle, ii. 147, 5x2.
Inch Connagan, ii. 602, 603.
Inch Crownv, ii. 6ox, 602.
Inchcrynnell loch, iii. 129.
Inch Davannan, ii. 60 x, 603.
Inchdruer, i. 48, 76 ; ii. 234.
Inch^ald ilands, ii. 517.
Inches, i. 323, 333.
Inchewyn, ii. 29, 535.
Inch Fadd, ii. 60 x, 602.
Inchgall island, ii. X56.
Inchgarvie, ii. 405.
Inch Gren, ii. 204.
Inchian, iii. 269.
Inchinnan, i. 423; ii. 203, 206, 208,

2x0; iii. X27, 213.
Inchirrit, i. X40.
Inch Kenyth, iii. 269.
Inch Kenzie, iii. 279.
Inch Loichart, ii. 552.
Inch Lonaig, ii. 602, 603.
Inch Mahome, i. 340 ; ii. 567.
Inchmarloch, i. 428.
Inch Marnock, iii. 264.
Inchmirren, i. 345.
Inch Moin, ii. 601, 602.
Inch Mourin, ii. 601, 602.
Inch Muylt, ii. 552.
Inchnoche, iii. 134.
Inchoch, i. 231 ; ii. 43 x.
Inchraurie, i. 23.
Inchronie, i. 7.
Inch-Traynich, ii. 147, 512.
Inchtellie, i. 237.
Inchture, i. X4X.
Inchtuthill, ii. 572.
Inchures, 1. 298.

384

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Inderwell, ii. 8i.

Inerioch, i. 355.

Ingerston, iii. 150.

Inglis, Alex., alias Hamilton of Mor-

dostoD, i. 420.
James, minister of Muthiil, i.

133.

Patrick, schoolmaster, L 145,

146, 151.

sir William, charter by king

Robert in favour of, iii. 95.

Inglismaldie, i. 262 ; iii. 240.

Ingliston, ii. 616; iii. 117, 205.

Ink, manufacture of, iii. 23.

Inner. See also Inver.

Innerallon, ii. 612.

Innemethy, i. 118.

Inner-pefiy (Enerpafry, Innerpertrie),

i. 130, 131, 138; ii. 45-
Innerqaiech(Innerqueeth), i. II2, 113;

iii. 222.
Innerwick, iii. 114, 217.
Innes, baron, ii. 433.

of Meikle, ii. 238.

of Sandside, iii. 87.

of Thursater, iii. 87.

George, of Dunoone, ii. 27.

James, of Ardgy, i. 237.

minister of Cannesbay, i.

155.

John, of Borlom, i. 183.

captain William, of Sanstde, i.

181, 184.
William, minister of Thurso, i.

174.

Wra., i. 236.

family, ii. 231, 253, 309; iii.

130.
-^ — house, 11. 433.
Insard loch, i. 199.

river, i. 198.

Insh. See Inch.

Intothe castle, iii. 130.

Inveralochie, i. 40, 47, 55, 68; ii.

236.
Inverarduran, ii. 534.
Inverarity, i. 272 ; ii. 25, 27 ; iii. 245.

laird of, ii. 29.

Inverary, ii. I45-M7* I49i 5"-5i3>

537,538.593. .. ^^ ^ ...
Inver-Avon, 1. 87 ; u. 368, 576 ; ui.

124, 125, 244.
Inveraw, li. 152, 515.
Inverawn, i. 246.
Inver- Broray, iii. 59.
Inverbruachag, ii. 559.
Inverbucket, castle, ii. 243, 262.
Inver Buick, ii. $49'
Inver Canny, i. 104 ; ii. 553.

Invercarritie, laird of, ii. 5a
Invercarroon, ii. 547, 561, 568, 569.
Invercauld, ii. 241.
Inverchailty, ii. 6i2.
Inverchaslav, L 200, 201.
Inverchassill, ii. 546, 569.
Inverchoymbre, ii. 570.
Inver Dale, u. 577, 578.
Inverdownie hill, i. 123.
Inverdunning, i. 119.
Invereamen, i. 20, 21.
Inver-EUon, iii. 24J.
Inveremy, i. 225 ; li. 557.
Inveresk, ii. 617, 622; iii. 118.
Inver- Ew, ii. 540, 541.
Inverey, i. 259, 428; ii. 241, 260,

511.
Inver Gawnan, ii. 536.
Invergourie, ii. 22, 23, 31, 33, 158 n,
Inverhelt, ii. 158 n.
Inverhope, i. 192, 195.
Inver Huntlie, iii. 167.
Inverichtie house, ii. 27.
Inveringneon, ii. 562.
Inver Inn, iL 558.
Inver Ishie, ii. 577.
Inverkeillor, i. 273, 275, 276 ; ii 44 ;

iii. 247.
Inverkeithing, i. 287, 290.
Inverkeithny, i. 77, 86, 91, 93; ii.

239» 405.
Inverkip, ii. 205, 210; iii. 127, 214.
Inverlaenbeg, ii. 541.
Inverlaenmoir, ii. 541.
Inverleith, ii. 617; iii. 11 8.
Inverleithan, iii. 155.
Inverlingley, ii. 158 n.
Inver Locherd, ii. 552.
Inverlochie, i. 133, 228; ii. 158, 159,

162, 163, 518, 520.
Inverlounane, iii. 247.
Invermark castle, ii. 39.
Invermarky, ii. 233, 577.
Inver Mastrachan, ii. 558.
Invermay, i. 1^8.
Invermearan, li. 564.
Invermessan, ii. 91, 92 ; iiL 128, 129.
Invermonochill, ii. 534.
Invermorisden, ii. 549.
Invermuick bum, ii. 562.
Invemaver, i. 188.
Invemeam. See Nairn.
Inverness, ii. 15811, 172| I73» 308, 309,

412, 413, 430, 509. 523. 524. 555»

^73 ; description of, by Lad. Grant,

I. 204.

i firth, ii. 415.

shire, ii. 307, 524,

; Invernettie, L 20, 22, 37, 39.

GENERAL INDEX

385

Invernochtie, i. 20, 22, 37 ; ii. 243, 262.

Invemvtie, i. 70 ; ii. 571. .

Inverokehirt, ii. 535.

Inver Owlass, ii. 577.

Inverpertrie, i. 138.

Inver Rinaeg, ii. 543.

Inversell, ii. 543.

Invershin (Einwershin), i. 201 ; ii. 420,

441,545; iii. 105.
Inversnaat, i. 345 ; ii. 537.
Invertig, ii. 15.
Invertrowy, ii. 578.
Inver Tnimmie, ii. 577.
Invertulnan, ii. 573.
Invenigie, i. 63, 66, 67, 250 ; ii. 235,

238, 240, 244, 249, 258, 259, 263,

471 ; iii. 227.

castle, i. 40 ; ii. 236, 257, 423.

water, ii. 256.

Inverurie, i. 6-8, 10, 17-19, 28, 34, 99.

Invervar, ii. 562.

lona, ii. 155, 188, 217-219; iii. 277;

description of, ii. xxxii, 216.
Irohet, ii. 555.

Ireland of Ochtergev)^!, ii. 571.
Irish language, i. xxxi.
Irongray, i. 395, 397, 399 ; ii. 54.56.
Iron mines in Strath naver, ii. 425.
Irvine (Irwing), ii 586, 589.592, 605-

607.

water, i. 413 ; ii. 589-591. .

of Amadge, ii. 238.

of Auchenbedridge, i. 393.

of Drum, ii. 237, 480.

of Foveran, ii. 238.

of Saphoclc, i. 10.

baron Alexander, ii. 242, 261.

sir Alexander, of Drum, ii. 477.

Alexander, of Crimond, i. 40.

of Lenturke, ii. 473.

' William, of Arlamphort, i. 44.

minister of Edzell, ii. 39.

— minister of Muthill, i. 133.

Isauld, i. 183, 184.

Isay, iii. 285.

Isbyster, i. 148.

Iskinavar, ii. 547.

Isla river, i. 89-91, no, 112, 114, 312 ;

ii.. 231. 233. 249, 253, 571, 594; iii.

222.

Islay, i. 246; ii. 188-192, 527; iii.

271.
Istenhouse, iii. 204.
Ithan. 5i?^Ythan.
Ituna, ii. 356, 372,
lyll castle, iii. 129.

Jack of Tannochside, i. 418.
Gilbert, professor, ii. 474.

VOL. III.

Jackdaw and majgpie, pairing of, ii. 10.
Jaffray, Mr., his description of the

parishes of Monymusk, Kemnay, and

Cluny, i. 94.
James zv., founder of Lady kirk, i. 378.
James parish. See Garvock.
Jamesone, George, of Aberdeen, ii.

474» 476.
Jaw, i. 322.
Jed water, iii. 136.
Jedburgh, iii. 136, 137, 157, 158, 160,

606.

lord, iii. 161.

Andrew, master of, iii. 161.

Jed ward, iii. 157, 160.

Jervistoun, i. 421 ; iii. 134, 135.

Jerviswood, iii, 134, 135.

Jeshaw, iii. 137.

Jeshur loch, iii. 140.

Jhones isle, iii. 274.

Joass, i. 242.

John a Groit's house, i. 153.

de Reive, i. 370.

of Ila, iii. 260, 261.

Johncleuch, iii. 181.

* Johnnies' or borderers, ii. 73.

Johnshaven, i. 264 ; iii. 236.
ohnstone of Newtoun, iii. 17.
Arthur, physician, ii. 474 ; epi-
grams on Aberdeen, iii. 91.

George, i. 146.

or Ruthven, col. James, i. 125.

sir James, of Dunskellie, i. 382.

John, of Clawghries, iii. 209.

professor at St. Andrews, ii.

474-
theologian, of Aberdeen, ii.

477-
William, professor at Aberdeen,

ii. 474, 477.

colonel, i. 371.

Johnstoun, i. 268, 270, 367 ; ii. 206.
Jordanfeild, iii. 182.
Jordanhill, ii. 201, 579.
Jordanstoun, i. izo.
tossof CoUeonard, i. 76.
Judicatories of Berwickshire, iii. 172.
Junor, provost of Inverness, i. 206.
Jura, ii. 188, 191, 192.

Kaill Water, iii. 136.
Kaillach Rannach, ii. 563.
Kaille-mpir, ii. 536, 566.
Kaille Newyrr, ii. 566.
Kaillintuy, ii. 612.
Kaillychat, ii. 612.
Kaillymuck, ii. 611.
Kailty water, .ii. 612.
Kaimhouse, iii. 146.

386

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Kainnachan, ii. 597.
Kaim river, iii. 20^.
Kairne Lair Bane, iii. 241.
Kairnhill. See Cairnhiil.
Kaithen, i. 79.
Kaldaw river, ii. 536.
Kalvyn river, ii. 595.
Karnes, iii. 178.

castle, iii. 264.

Kammer-awnan, ii. J99.

Kammer Raddach, ii. 602, 603.

Kammer Shyinies, ii. 609.

Kammey Keanvaig, ii. 582.

Kandacraig, i. 37.

Kantra, ii. 557.

Kantranager, ii. 557.

Kantra Prish, ii. 557.

Kareg-ow, ii. 601, 602.

Kareg-rank, ii. 573.

Kargarf castle, i. 37.

Karko convent, iii. 197.

Karnet hill, ii. 552.

Karrockinn, ii. 551.

Karvy, i. 37.

Katclaig, li. 576.

Kateirn, ii. 609.

Katerline, i. 26^.

Kayiltie water, ii. 550.

Kayllie-Whundenie, ii. 577.

Kayllychrie, ii. 566.

Kealnsay, iii. 298.

Keam, i. 235.

Kean. See also Ken and Kin.

Keanball, ii. 583.

Keanbinn, i. 192.

Keancraig, ii. 608.

Keandendruym, ii. 584.

Keand Lochyiell, ii. 159, 5^8.

Keandrochart, ii. 241, 566, 567.

Keangherloch. See Kingairloch.

Keanknok, ii. 535.

Keanloch, ii. 538, 540, 583.

Keanloch Ailsh, i. 200; ii. 546, 569; iii.

97, 106.
Keanloch Breyin, 11. 540, 541 •
Kean Loch Carroun, ii. 548, 601.
Kean Loch Chrosk, ii. 551.
Kean Locherin, ii. 542, 549, 565.
Kean Loch-Ew, ii. 538, 540, 541.
Keanloch-gareron, ii. 560.
Kean loch -goil, ii. 146, 512.
Keanlochluong, ii. 544.
Kean Loch Luychart, ii. 551.
Kean-loch-Monery, ii. 552.
Keanlochsligach, ii. 582.
Kean Loch Strathic, iii. 97.
Kean Loch Tay, ii. 565.
Kean-loch-Treyg, ii. 596.
Kean-na- Knock, ii. 562.

Kean-na-pool, ii. 578.

Keannaskie, ii. 613.

Keansaly, i. 196.

Kearny, i. 79.

Keathock, i. 274 ; ii. 40.

Keatnes, ii. 34, 35.

Keeple burn, iii. 208.

Keer water, i. 131.

Kees or Keisse castle, i. 153, 159, 176;

ii. 423-
Keig, i. 21, 94, 96.
Keir, i. 310, 312; ii. 609.
Keirs, ii. 585.
Keith, i. 80, 239, 241, 245 ; ii. 232,

2J4, 266, 595; iii. 114; description

of the parish of, i. 88.

of Cowton, i. 254.

of Innerugie, ii. 423.

of Meikle Creicfaie, i. 45.

of Northfield, i. 42.

Alexander, i. 71.

Charles, minister of Wick, i. 162.

earl George, ii. 245, 264, 477-

James, i. 44, 65 ; his description

of the parish of St. Fer^s, 66.
(Keyth), John, minister of Dun-

nottar, his notes on the Meams, iii.

236.

sir William, of Lutquhaim, i. 39.

fiimily, i. 159, 249; ii. 236,

238*
Keithhall, i. 6, 8, 9, 1 1, 17.
Keith Inch, i. 70 ; iii. 228-230.
Keith mac Indoill, i. 346.
Keithmore, i. 246.
Kelhead cUias Kinmounthall, i. 37a
Kellie, i. 98 ; ii. 28, 47 ; iii. 125, 126.

earl of, iii. 219.

Kello, iii. 181.

Kells, i. 401, ii. 60-63, 66-69, 7h 108,

109, 123, 131.
Kellybank, i. 367.
Kelly bridge, ii. 208.
Kelly Law, ii. 403, 591 ; iii. 221.
Kellymoor, ii. 594.
Kelphupe, iii. 174.
Kelso, i. 363 ; ii. 583, 607 ; abbqr, ii.

125, 127 ; iii. 136, 158.
^— of Dankeith, i. 414.
Kelton, i. 395, 396 ; ii. 53, 58-60, 63,

64, 68, 71, 108, 122, 131.
Kelty,i. 302, 303.

bridge, i. 134.

water, i. 134, 135, 33S, 348.

Kelvin river, ii. 193, X95, 368, 578,

579 ; iii. 125.
Kelvynsyd, ii. 579.
Kemms, ii. 588.
Kemnay, i. 6, 8, 11, 17, 97; ii. 244,

GENERAL INDEX

387

263; Jaflfray's description of the

pansh, i. 94.
Kempcairn, i. 91.
Kemps castle, i. 132.
Ken. See also Kean and Kin.
Kenchnache, iii. 290-292.
Kendale, i. xxv, 9.
Kendrochait, ii. 241, 563, 566.
Kengearloch. See Kingairloch.
Kenloch. See Kinloch.
Kenmuir, ii. 63 ; castle, 63, 109, 1 10,

"3.
viscount of, ii. 60-64, I09> IM>

123 ; iiL 96.
Kennacoil castle, ii. 242, 260.
Kenne water, ii. 61-63, 107-109, 128-

131 ; iii. 185.
Kennedy of Ardgichtf ii. 238.

of Bargeny, ii. 5.

of Beltersan, ii. 6.

of Bennan, ii. 6.

of Carloclc, ii. 6.

of Drammellan, ii. 6.

of Glenour, ii. 6.

of Grange, ii. 7.

of Kaimmuclc, i. 152 ; ii. 485.

of Kilheigwe, ii. 6.

of Kirkmichael, ii. 6.

of Knoclcdone, ii. 6.

of Schinnemes, ii. 90. ^

sir Arch., of Colarne, ii. 6, 21.

sir Gilbert, of Girvanmains, ii. 6.

sir Thomas, of Kirkhill, ii. 6.

provost of Edinburgh, ii. 15.

Kennertie, i. 261, 262.
Kennett, i. 307.
Kennoway, i. 299, 30a
Kepet, ii. 572.
Keppach, li. 198, 519.
Keppdarroch, i. 352.
Ker of Abbotrule, iii. 162.

of Cavers, iii 162.

of Chatto, iii. 162.

of Cherry trees, iii. 162.

of Frogton, iii. 162.

of Greenhead, iii. 162.

of Littledean, iii. 162.

of Newton, iii. 162.

Andrew, of Sinlaws, his descrip-
tion of Roxburgh, iii. 135.

minister of Rathven, i. 147.

sir Robert, of Ancnim, iii. 161.

sir Thomas, of Fairnihirst, iii.

161.
Kerdaig, ii. 601, 602.
Kern or Keim, i. xxiv, 2, 3, 11, 13, 15,

32-34.
Kemadert well, iii. Z95.
Kemaig, ii. 601, 602.

Kerrara (Kearera), iL 175, 527.
Kerristone house, i. 301.
Kershope, i. 363 ; iii. 135, 139, 166.
Kersiebank, i. 320.
Kersie house, i. 328.
Kersie moss, i. 327.
Kerss, i. 321.

castle, i. 333.

KerUy, iii. 298.

Kessack ferry, i. 205, 206.

Kessickton well, ii. 65.

Keth, ii. 572.

Kettins, description of the parish, i.

279.
Kettle, i. 296, 290.
Kettlesheill, iii. 181.
Keuchen-vin-Lowib, ii. 600.
Keul-glen, ii. 534.
Keurny, ii. 546, 569.
Kevil, ii. 588.
Keylburg, ii. 582.
Kiartay, ii. 213.
Kiback, ii. 538-j;39-
Kid of Craigie, li. 31.

of Woodhill, ii. 49.

Kidston, Over and Nether, iii. 151.
Kiess castle, i. 157.
Kilallan, i. 424, 425.
Kilbar, ii. 179, 529.
Kilbarchan, ii. 206, 209, 210.
Kilbarray, ii. I77f 178, 5^9-
Kilbedan, ii. 153, 515.
Kilbeg, i. 339 ; ii. 583.
Kilberrie, ii. 186.

castle, ii. 186, 526.

Kilbirny family, ii. 19$.

Kilblaen. See Culblaln.

Kilblaithmont, i. 275.

Kilbovie, ii. 200.

Kilbrachan, iii. 127*

Kilbread loch, iii. 207.

Kilbride, i. 312 ; iii. 263.

Kilbmy, ii. 209, 591.

Kilbucho, iii. 141, 148, 151, 156.

Kilburnin, ii. 591.

Kilbumy loch, iii. 213.

Kilbuyac, i. 2^8 ; ii. 432.

Kil-Catherin, li. 146, 512.

Kilchallumchill, ii. 153, 157, 517.

Kilchemyeis, ii. 586.

Kilcherran, ii. 191.

Kilcherrill, ii. 173.

Kilchoen, ii. 168, 542.

Kilchonan, ii. 174, 190, 191, 543.

Kilchreanan, ii. 152, 515.

Kilchrist, i. 205, 209-211 ; ii. 555, 583.

Kilclevin, ii. 571.

Kilcolmkill, in Strathbroray, iii. 99.

Kilcroich, ii. 581.

S88

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Kildal, i. 193.

Kildalton, ii. 189.

Kildees or Culdees, i. 130.

Kildermor^r, i. 213.

Kildonan, i. 181 ; ii. 14, ao, 176, 438,

528, 583 ; iii. 99. 104, 106.
Kil-Dowich, ii. 544.
Kildrmnmy castle, i, 2, 13, 19, 21 n,

26-28, 31, 33, 34, 37 ; ii. 243, 262,

Kildun, i. 210 ; ii. 551.

Kilelspic-Kerrel, ii. 152, 514, 515.

Kileum castle, iii. 287.

Kilfadrik, ii. 530.

Kilheigwe, ii. 6, 19.

Kilhilt, laird of, ii. 96.

Kiliscoug, i. 197, 199.

Kilistrom, i. 198.

Kilkearair, ii. 527.

Kilkearrane, ii. 187.

Killagin castle, ii. 182, 531.

Killandry, ii. 554.

Killanringan, ii. 95.

Killaser, li. 96 ; iii. 129.

Killbare, iii. 287.

Killbeg. See Kilbeg.

Kiilbuyack. See Kilbuyac.

Killchuimen, i. 217, 220-221 ; ii. 171,

X72, 526.
Killdavie, L 346.
Killeam, i. 348, 349 ; ii. 581.
Killeaman, 1. 204-205.
Killeith, iii. 118.
Killermont, ii. 195.
Killewlan, ii. 541, 543.
Killinn, i. 208, 334 ; ii. 535-537, 562,

563, 573, 594.
Cillicn

Killicrankie, i. 310.
Killiewhannedie, i. 396.
Killilang, i. 142.
Killing water, iii. 116.
Killinich water, ii. 616.
Killintyne, iii. 281.
Kiliiscoug, i. 186.
Kiilimadock. See Kilmadock.
Killmaillie ^See Kilmalie.
Killmannan, i. 349.
Killmoiden or Glendaruell, ii. 126.
Killmoirch, ii. 511.
Killmoire in Craignes, ii. 150.
Killmolowocke, iii. 283.
Killmony, ii. 180.
Killmorocht castle, iii. 283.
Killmuycoll, ii. 186.
Killo water, iii. 197, 198.
Killoch, il 589.
Killochan castle, ii. 12, 20.
Killor castle, i. 139.
Killos. See Kinloss.

Killpettill, ii. 180, 181.
Killurid, ii. 583.
Killwarron, iii. 204.
Kilmachalmuy, ii. 547, 569.
Kilmadock, i. 133, 310, 311, 335-340,

350; ii. 612.
ilmaglais, ii. 145,
Kilmahew, ii. 198.

Kilmaglais, ii. 145, 511.

Kilmahog, i. 336; ii. 565-567, 593,

611.
Kilmahoy, i. 134, 135.
Kilmalcolm, i. 424; ii. 204, 206, 210 ;

iii. 127.
Kilmalie, ii. 159, 162, 169, 518-520,

523, 526 ; iii. 104, 106.
Kilmaluag, ii. 155, 517. 532.
Kilmanevag, ii. 158, 159, 161, 162, 170,

518, 519, 523-
Kilmarchirmoir, ii. 180, 530.
Kilmardiny, ii. 194.
Kilmarnock, i. 344, 348, 353 ; ii. 193,

197* 5Si> 5^» 605, 606 ; description

of the parish by Graham of Ducnray,

i. 352.

William, earle of, iL 193.

Kilmaron, i. 304.

Kilmaroy in Arrisaig, ii. 168, 522.

Kilmartine, ii. 149, 513, 554, 582.

Kilmaurs, ii. 586 ; ii. 606.

Kilmichaell in Glasrie, iL 149, 513.

Kilminabeg, i. 217.

Kilminster, i. 158, 159.

Kilmirrie, ii. 221.

Kilmo-Lowag, ii. 584.

Kilmorack, i. 210.

Kilmore, i. 205 ; ii. 19, 176, 514, 522,

528, 550, 583, 584, 609.
Kilmorie, ii. 93, 151, 167, 554.
Kilmonrich, ii. 538.
Kilmuils-croft, ii. 588.
Kilmundy, i. 69.
Kilmune, ii. 144, 511.
Kilnathan, ii. 189.
Kilnclugh, i. 390.
Kilour, 1. 280.
Kilpatrick, i. 425 ; ii. 127, 200, 204,

580.
Samuel, minister of Ladykirk, L

380.

Kilpatrick Durham. See Kirkpatrick.
Kilpurnie, ii. 35.
Kilquhoan, ii. 522.
Kilraa, ii. 174, 526.
Kilravock, i. 225, 231.

castle, ii. 432, 557.

Kilrinaeg, ii. 544.
Kil Saint Ninian, ii. 172, 524.
Kilsimull, ii. 179.
Kilspindie, i. 375.

GENERAL INDEX

889

Xilsyth, i. 28a, 320 ; ii. 193, 579, 581,

„.?«• .

Xilteam, i. 212.

Kilteglon, ii. 553.

Kiltuman, i. 209.

Kilvakisa, ii. 584.

JCilwhamedy (Kilquonadie), i. 397 ; ii. 54.

Kilwhimen, ii. 525.

Kilwhiss, i. 296, 297.

Kilwhonan, ii. 543.

Kilwinning, ii. J90, 591, 606.

Kimerghame, iii. 181.

Kin. See also Kean and Ken.

Kinaber, i. 264.

Kinalty, i. 285-286 ; ii. 29, 535.

Kinbattoch chapel, i. 27.

Kinbrach^, ii. 009.

Kinbuk, 1. 313, 314; ii. 608.

Kincardin, 1. 308 ; ii. 22, 243, 261, 266,

S69»593»6ii; iii. 242.

Perthshire, i. 339, 340.

carl of, i. 291, 292 ; iii. 240.

Kincardine Oneil, i. 28, 31, 32, loi,

259» 428.
Kincausie, i. 108, 430.
Kinchaldrum, i. 211.
Kinchraig, ii. 574.
Kinclavin, i. 279 ; ii. 594 ; iii. 223.
Kincraig, ii. 547.

Heuch, iii. 221.

Kindie, i. 20-22.
Kindrochit, ii. 241, 563, 566.
Kineglass river, ii. 515.
Kinethmount (Kinellmont), i. 1-4, 11-

16, 33» 35» 36, 59.
Kinettles, i. 272 ; ii. 25-27 ; iii. 245.
King, William, of Newmilns, i. 232.
Kingairloch (Kingearlogh, Keanger-

logh), ii. 165, 166, 359, 520.
Kingdunie, ii. 32.
King Edward, i. 44, 48, 76, 78, 91,

242-244; ii. 433; iii. 227.
King Galdus's tomb, ii. 74, 77, 117.
Kinghom, i. 116, 117; ii. 402, 405, 407.

earl of, ii. 27.

Kinghornie, i. 266.

Kinglas, ii. 152.

Kingoldrum, i. 281 ; ii. 27, 35, 37 ;

iii. 246.
Kingsbekhead, iii. 133, 135.
Kings bum, i. 83.
Kings-Case hospital, i. 410.
Kingscleuch, ii. 587.
Kings Field, Rathen, i. 56.
Kings foord, i. 84.
Kingsgrame, iii. 139.
Kings Haugh, iii. 1 57.
Kingside loch, iii. 140.
Kings isle, iii. 269.

I Kings Koyle, i. 410.
' Kingslaw, iii. 133, 135.
I Kings Meadows, ii. 203.
I King's Moss, ii. 610.

Kings of Scotland buried in Dunferm-
line, i. 290.

Kin^s Seat, Rathen, i. 56, 113, 307;
iii. 141.

Kingswells, i. 99, 100.
i Kinguidy, i. 10.

Kingussie, ii. 174, 525.

Kingussiebeg, ii. 574.

Kingussiemoir, ii. 574.
I Kinharrache, i. 427.

Kinieff, i. 265 ; iii. 232 ; description of
the parish, i. 257.

Kininmonth, i. 40, 47, 68.

Alex, , bishop of Aberdeen, ii.

, 486. 487.

I Kininoie, i. 87 ; ii. 231.

I Kinked, ii. 579.

Kinkego Law, iii. 133.

Kinkel, i. 2, 8, 9, 19.

Icrach, ii. 553.

Meanach, ii. 553.

Ocreach, ii. 553.

Kinleith, ii. 617.

Kinloch (Kenloch), i. 190, 191, 231,
297.

of Gourdie, iii. 222.

of that ilk, iii. 245.

C, of Bandoch, iii. 222.

sir Francis, of Gilmarton, i. 375.

— y— sir Jfames, i. iix, 278.

Kinlochailse. See Keanloch Ailsh.

Kinlochbirsy, i. 196, 199.

Kinloss, i. 232, 238 ; ii. 307, 429, 432,
536, 576.

Kinmenity, i. 90.

Kinmundie, i. 63, 85 ; ii. 238.

Kinnaber, i. 273, 327, 330; ii. 42.

Kinnaird, i. 141, 275 ; ii. 37, 43-44,
441 ; iii. 247.

Kinnairdhead, i. 52, 71 ; ii. 236.

castle, i. 40, 41.

Kinnairdy castle, ii. 239.

Kinnairny, i. 96, 103.

Kinnald, iii. 99.

Kinnear (Kinnier), Alexander, minister
of Both well, i. 4x6.

Kinneddor, i. 232, 233, 236.

Kinneil castle, ii. 3^

Kinnell, i. 273, 368; ii. 44; iii.

125.247.
Kinnellan, i. 99.
Kinnermony, i. 230.
Kinninvay, i. 246.
I Kinnochtrie, i. 280.
Kinnoul, earl of, i. 130, 138, 139.

124,

890

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Kinnura, ii. 573. I

Kinrura na Caille, ii. 577.

Kinrine, i. 285.

Kinross house, i. 292.

Kinsterie, ii. 431.

Kintail, i. 190; ii. 174, 220, 359, 414*

426, 536, M9. 541.543, 549, 552* 601.
Kintore, i. 8, 1 1, 96 ; ii. 244, 263, 471. .

earl of, i. 9.

Kintra-doun, ii. 557.

Kinwonnowjr, ii. 556.

Kip rivulet, ii. 205.

Kippen, i. 123, 337, 339, 340, 34^ ; "•

005, 609, 610; Graham's descrip- ,

tion of the parish, i. 351.
Kippendavie, i. 312, 313 ; ii. 60S.
Kippenross, i. 312 ; ii. 608, 613.
Kire, iiL a<^.
Kirewran, ii. 555.
Kirk, L 37, 97, 98.

bum, iii. 133.

Kirlcabole, i. 170; ii. 441.
Kirkade, i. 116; ii. 601.
Kirkanders, ii. 65, 66, 71, 126.
Kirkbean, ii. 53-56, 71, 108, 130; iii.

102.

KirkboU, iii. 109.

Kirkbrvde, ii. 8, 18 ; iiL 200.

Kirkcaidie, i. 299 ; ii. 405.

Kirkcanvil, i. 284.

Kirkcastel, ii. c8.

Kirkchrist, ii. 64, 71, 90, 132.

Kirkcolme, ii. 93, 94, 98, 117.

Kirkconnell, i. 372 ; iii. 197.

Kirkcormock, ii. 59, 71.

Kirkcowan, ii. 7$, 78, 86-89, 98-101,
112.

Kirkcudbright (Kirkcudburgh, Kir-
cowbrie), ii. 52-72, 98, 99, 108, XO9,
121-126, 132 ; iii. 185 ; a general de-
scription of the Stewartrie, 128.

lord, iii. 55.

Kirkcunie, iii. 1 28.

Kirkdale or Kirdale, ii. 67^ 68, 71.

Kirkdamnie, ii. 585.

Kirkden, i. 275, 276.

Kirke isle, iii. 270.

Kirkennen, ii. 58.

Kirkenner, ii. 70. 72. 75. 77, 78, 80,
81, 84, S6, SS, 98, 100, 105, 106,
112, 113, 116; iii. 128.

Kirkforthure, i. 299, 301.

Kirkgunnion, i. 395; ii. 53, 54, 56,
57, 71, 130.

Kirkhill, i. 3, 1$, 234, 426; ii. 6, 15,
20, 585 ; iii. 138.

Ktrkhope, i. 3^8 ; iii. 139, 140, 150, 166.

Kirkhope heaa, iii. 132.

Kirkiboll, i. 190.

Kirkintilloch, iL 192, 368, 578, 579^

594; iii. 124.
Kirkland, i. 236, 332 ; il 17, 585 ; iiL

148.
Kirklawhill, iii. 151.
Kirklebride, i. 396, 398.
Kirkmabrieck, 1. 407 ; iL 66-69, 71, 75,

77,78, no, 112, 132.
Kirkmadroyn, ii. 81, 86, 88, 98, 126.
Kirkmaho, iii. 208.
Kirkmaiden, ii. 85, 86, 88, 95, 96, 98,

100, 115, 126.
Kirkmalie, ii. i6i.
Kirkmichael, i. 19, 26, 109; iL 4, 6, 8,

II, 18, 19,126, 197,585-
Kirknewton, ii. 616, 622 ; iii. 1 17.
Kirknie river, i. 35.
Kirk of Kei£, i. 6.

Loch Breyn, iL 601.

Machlin, ii. 587.

Shoots, i. 317.

Stratoun, ii. 585.

Kirkoswald, iL 4, 7, 9, 18, 20, 21.
Kirkowane, iii. 128.
Kirkpatrick, i. 367 ; iL53, 60 ; iiL 208.
Roger, of Closebum, iiL 201, 204,

209.

Thomas, of Closbum, iiL 209.

Kirkpatrick Durham, L 395 ; ii. 54, 55,

71, 108, 122, 130.
Kirkpatrick Fleeming, i. 371, 381.
Kirkpatrick Irongrey, iL 55, 71, 130.
Kirkside, L 264.
Ktrkskalater, L 37.
Kirkstead, iii. 165.
Kirkstile, i. 394.
Kirktoun, L 182, 185, 186; iL 12, 45.

alias Spittle6eld, i. 275.

Kirktoun-Drainie, ii. 433.
Kirktoun of Clatt, i. 14.

of Essie, ii. 35.

— of Kinkel, L 9.
Kirktounhill, i. 263, 269.
Kirknrd, iiL 149, 154, 155.
Kirkwall, i. 142, 143 ; iii. 2, 308.
Kirkwood, L 369; iii. 125.
Kirriemuir, i. 272, 281, 285 ; iL 21, 22,

25,29,305 iii. 244,245.
Kirtimy, i. 187.

Kirtle water, i. 371, 372, 382-385.
Kirwop, iii. 96.
Kisburgbe^, iL 582-584.
Kisburgmoir, ii. 584.
Kiserin, ii. 538.
Kisimull castle, ii. 529.
Kitemadill, iii. 266.
Kiumach, ii. 598.
Klammaig, ii. 582.
Klashinrae, i. 28.

GENERAL INDEX

S91

KUwalg, ii. 557.

Klowonic, u. 574.

Klymach, i. 26.

Knaick (Knaijk) water, i. 131 ; ii. 609.

Knakfranga, li. 555.

Knapdale (GnaptiU), ii. 149, 186, 358,

513,526.
Knaperaay, i. 98.
Knights Miln, i. 37.
Knightswood, ii. 195.
Knittera, i. 369.
Knoc-an-£rinach, i. 164.
Knochan, i. 203 ; ii. 546, 569.
Knock, ii. 234 ; iii. 126, 151, 184.
Knockanchalligh, ii. 442 ; iii. 97, 107.
Knockando, iii. 244.
Knockaspeck, i. 2.
Knockbreck, i. 193.

water, iii. 266.

Knockdar, ii. 599.
Knockdaw, ii. 20.
Knockdolian, ii. [5, 20, 585.
Knockdone, ii. 6, 19, 586.
Knock'droket, i. 397.
Knockerinach, i. 168, 169.
Knockeyilt, iL 536.
Knock Fermoil (Knok Formal), ii.

SS2,5S5.
Knockhnn hill, ii. 422.
Knockfolduich, ii. 599.
Knockhall, i. 98 ; li. 238.
Knockhill, i. 74, 311, 369; ii. 609.

ofStryla, i. 87.

Knocki, ii. 556.

Knockknows, iii. 149.

Knocko, ii. 584.

Knock of Crieff, i. 138.

Knock Oshin, ii. 14, 16.

Knockospack (Knospekatk), i. 14, 15.

Knocksoul, i. 24.

Knokayvin, ii. J70.

Knokinarrow, ii. 547, 56S.

Knokinomori, ii. 549.

Knoknagiall, ii. 555.

KnokralTon, ii. 609.

Knokwievess, ii. 555.

Knowhead, i. 28.

Knox, John, ii. 207 ; birthplace, i.

376; iii. 67.

Ochta, of Ranfurly, ii. 207.

minister of Belly, i. 240.

Knoxes of that ilk, ii. 203, 207, 208.
Knoydart (Knoideor), ii. 156, 175, 182,

220, 312, 359, 517, 522, 525, 531,

546.
Knovishyman, ii. 600.
Kocksburn, i. 312.
Kokseye, iii. 56.
Kollochan, ii. 585.

Koninch, ii.

Konisky, ii. 610,

Konry, i. 37.

Konyknappach, ii. 599.

Kootlehall, iii. 152.

Kory. See also Cory.

Kory-chaba, iL 596.

Kory chercill, ii. 596.

Kory-chertill, ii. 575.

Kory-ei^ag, ii. 596.

Kory Fmnarach, ii. 552.

Kory Ghealduy, ii. 599.

Korygoan, ii. 596.

Korygoil, ii. 536.

Kory-mack-rennich, ii. 596.

Kory-na-mein, ii. 596.

Kory Rha, ii. 597.

Koul na kirk, li. 550.

Kowan, ii. 601, 602.

Kowdoun of Bucklyvie, ii. 610.

Kowend. See Cowend.

Kowilrigreen, ii. 567.

Kowonaeg water, ii. 573.

Koyle water, i. 412.

Koyle-Stewart, i. 410.

Koyltoun, i. 41 1.

Koynachan, ii. 549.

Koynlie river, ii. 536.

Kraaulan, ii. 584.

Kraig Breack, ii. 574.

Krainlayd, ii. 600.

Krantullich, ii. 566.

Kreach na Keir, ii. 563.

Kreigeemy, ii. 562.

Kreig-na-Skarrow, ii. 603.

Kreigsfraven, ii. 568.

Kre Inche, ii. 602.

Kreitchoish, ii. 535.

Kroach-Luydan, ii. 597.

Kroshemer, ii. 584.

Krowach-Luydan, ii. 596.

Krowbin Beg, ii. 576.

Krowbin Moir, ii. 576.

Kncfaaille, ii. 555.

Kulbeachy, ii. 553.

Kurroch, ii. 610.

Kyle, ii. x, 2, 3, 8, 52, 53, 61, 69, 129,

I3i» 221, 356. 58s, 587, 589, 590.
Kyle na hiren, ii. 607.
Kyles moor, iii. 55, 56.
Kyll of Grudie, i. 193, 195.
Kylmure, iii. 263.
Kylruv wood, ii. 570.
Kyi Trochen, ii. 581.

Lachop, i. 419 ; iii. 134*
Lachran, i. 157.
Lacky, ii. 609.
Lacroy, ii. 575-

892

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Ladder, the, i. 21, 22.

Laddlelick, i. 25, 32.

Lady isle, i. 413 » parish, i. 378.

Ladvkirk, i. 378, 379, 409; iii. 173,

182.
Lady's well, i. 11, 329.
Ladyurd, iii. 149.
Ladvwood Edge, i. 365.
Laek-ow, ii. 601, 602.
Laeme, ii. 536.
Lafield, i. 375; iii. 114.
Lagankenith (Lagankenick), ii. 473.
Lagankerrich, ii. 525.
La^an, i. 217 ; ii. 575. 576.
Laggan Chyinch, ii. 599. ;

Laggavan Vinnicb, ii. 613. |

Lapriach, ii. 608.

Laiche isle, iii. 270. |

Laid be meal na Borin, ii. 568.
Lairds Croft, iL 94.
Lairg, i- 193. ^00; ii. 70, 92, 437,

439. 541 ; i». 98, 101-104, 106.

laird of, ii. 69.

Lairg Icrach, ii. 557.
Lairglochen, ii. 599.
Lairg na Ballach, ii. 567.
Lairg na Lhowin, ii. 564.
Lairg Ocrah, ii. 557.

Lairgs, ii. 586, 591, 592, 605, 606.

Lairnie, i. 102, 103.

Laithers, i. 38, 42.

Lakes that do not freeze, iii. xxiv, 18.

Lambay, iii. 297.

Lambden, iii. 179.

burn, iii. 177.

Lambertoun, iii. 171.
Lambes isle, iii. 293.
Lambholme, iii. 311.
Lamigo, i. 190.
Lamintoun, iii. 132, 134.

laird of, i. 373.

Lamlash, ii. 592.

Lammer Law, iii. 112, 171, 172.
Lammermoor hills, ii. 615; iii. no,

112, 17a
Lammertoun, iii. 183.
Lammertounsheill, iii. 183.
Lammy, major John, of Dunkenny, i.

277 ; ii. 35-

Sylvester, minister of Eassie, i.

278 ; ii. 35.

Lanark, i. 416 ; ii. 356, 567, 586-588,
594, 606, 607; description of, by
Baillie, iii. 131.

castle, ii. 611.

Lancia, iii. 56.

Langcoat, iii. 150.

Langdale, i. 188.

Langhaugh, iii. 150.

Langholm, i. 363 ; description of the

parish, i. 387.

castle, i- 388.

Langhope, iii. 167.

Langlandhill, iii. 149.

Langlands of that ilk, iii. 162.

Langmoor moss, iii. 174.

Langol, ii. 545, 546, 554, 601.

Langolicra, ii. 547, 568.

Langolmeanoch, iL 568.

Langolocra, ii. 547, 568.

Langreid, ii. 554.

Langshaw, iiL 162.

Langside, iiL 121, 126 ; battle of, iiL

216.

burn, iii. 134.

Lanetoun, i. 386 ; ii. 368 ; iii. 125,

167, 173. 180, 184.

water, iii. 173, 180.

Langtoun Edge, iiL 184.
Langwood, i. 391.
Lantay Vanych, iii. 271.
Lanton, L 321.

loch, L 325.

Lapis haematites, iii. 17.
Larbert, L 319, 326, 329.

bridge, L 331.

Larg. See Lairg.

Lar|;o Law, ii. 40^ ; iiL 55-56.

Lang Eyrenach, ii. 565.

Larig-kylle, ii. 565.

Larig Lochen, ii. 562.

Larinch, ii. 601.

Larrach, ii. 610.

Larrach na Heglish, iL 603.

Lasfoord, iL 561.

I^ssody, i. 302.

house, L 303.

Lasswade, L 373; iL 90-94, 98, 114,

126, 617, 618, 622 ; iiL 119.
Lathers, i. 92 ; ii. 238.
Lathron, L 151, 156, 158, 162,

179.
Lathron wheel, L 162, 163.
Latinised place-names, ii. ix.
Latyr, iL 568.
Lauder, iii. 174.

Bams, iiL 175.

Lauderdale, iii. 170.

earl of, iL 31, 34.

family, L 376.

Laudie moor bum, iiL 133.
Laurence, i. 263.
Laurencetown, i. 264.

Laurie, James, of Sherrell, i. 418.

Robert, of Maxeltoun, iii.

206.

Lauriston, ii. 617 ; iiL 118.
Law, i. 15, 286 ; ii. 195.

GENERAL INDEX

393

Law, house of, i. 3.

James, bishop of Orkney, i. 145 ;

iii. I.
Robert, minister of Staplegordon,

i- 392.

William, of Elphinstoun, i.

, 373.

Lawers, ii. 599.

burn, ii. 564.

Lawfield, i. 297.

Lawhill, i. 332.

Law Mill, in. 183.

Laws and government of Scotland, iii.
70.

Lawsons of Aberdeen, ii. 474.

of Caimmoor, iii. 145.

Lawtoune, ii. 45.

Lawyeat, i. ^22.

Laxay isle, iii. 293.

water, iii. 266, 271.

Laxford, iii. 61, 107.

river, ii. 442.

Layd Chroin, ii. 556.

Layd-Clamag, ii. 546, 568.

Layd-More, iii. 97.

Leac-vannah, ii. 564.

Lead mines, iii. 55 ; in Fife, 14 ; in
Glenesk, ii. 25; in Glengonar, iii.
134; at Greistone, 143; at Hope-
town, 199 ; in the Orkneys, 6.

Leadcharry, iL 535.

Leadgachulle, ii. 543.

Leac&iun, ii. 601.

Leadhill, iii. 51.

Lead Law silver mines, iii. 143.

Leadlewne, iL 580.

Leadmore, ii. 437.

Leag, ii. 599.

Leagland, iii. 99.

Leakgaur, ii. 563.

Leanach forest, iii. 242.

Leask, i. 38.

Leaven. Set Leven.

Leayd Shrom ne Gerramgh, iii. 97.

Lechakely, ii. 557.

Ijeckibank, i. 295.

Leckie, i. 352 ; ii. 604.

of Croy, i. 349,

of Myc, i. 348.

— Alex., of Arnmore, i. 351.
Leckra, ii. 609.

I^ecropt, L 136, 337, 339 ; description

of the parish, by Stevenson, 310.
Ledmackay, i. 20, 22.
Leggetsden, i. 17.
Leider water, iii. 170, 172, 173.
Leigh, Hugh, minister in Bressay, iii.

Leignachar, 11. 599.

I Leighton, Henry, bishop of Aberdeen,
I ii. 486.

Leinsha, ii. 590.

Leinzem barony, iii. 124.

Xeis, iii. 183.

Leith, ii. 615-618, 622, 628; iii* xiv,

93,119,173.177.
water of, ii. 617 ; iii. Ii6-ii8, 173,

177.
Leith of Freefield, i. 5.

ofHarthill, i. 6, 17.

of Overhall, i. 4.

William, of Bams, ii. 480.

Leithan water, iii. 145, 155.
Leithhall, i. 3, 15.

laird of, i. 16.

I^kahurin^, ii. J96.

Lekanachailuy, li. 597.

Lekke-nyn-Tewnan, ii. 600.

Lelannomian bay, ii. 358.

Lendhill, iii. 173, 178.

Lendrick tower, i. 338.

Lennox, ii. 201, 356, 358, 536, 565 ;

notes on, ii. 578.

countess of, ii. 197.

duke of, i. 411 ; ii. I97, 443-

earles of, ii. 194, 199, 611.

Alexander, i. 146.

Mathew, first earl of, ii. 203.

Lentrathen, i. 109 ; ii. 35, 37.

Leny, ii. 567, 611, 612, 615; iii.

116.
Lenzie (Leinzie), ii. 192, 193, 579.
Leper hospital, i. 410; iii. 158.
Lepit bridge, i. 268.
Lerkindie, i. 26.
Lermonth in Ersiltoun, iii. 184.
Lerwick, iii. 252.
Leslie, i. 1-3, 12-16, 299, 300.

of Balquhoyn, i. 7, 18, 19.

of Pitcaple, i. 7, 18.

of South Tarrie, ii. 45.

ofWartle, i. J.

Alex., of Lachop, i. 419.

John, bishop of Ross, ii. 473 ; iii.

canon of Rouen, lu. 259.

William, principal of King's

college, Aberdeen, ii. 473, 489.
Leslies of Aberdeen, ii. 474.
Lesmahagow abbey, iii. 134.
Lesscraiggy, i. 79.
Lessendrum, i. 36, 86.
Leswead, iii. 128.
Letham, i. 275, 303. 327-329, 334,

377; "• 45,615; iii. "5, "6.
Lethenty, i. 7, 18.
Lethin, ii. 432.
Lethindie, ii. 572 ; iii. 222.

894

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Lethingtoun, i. 377 ; iii. 1 14.

Lcthnci, i. 264, 274 ; u. 37, 39.

Lettam, iii. 178.

Letterghunsary, i. 189.

Letterlaghoill, i. 191.

Lettyr, u. 566.

Lcttyr Aim, ii. 541.

Letyr Beg, ii. 607.

Letyr Choulynn, ii. 544.

Letyr Choylle, ii. 541.

Letyr-Ew, ii. 539, 540.

Letyr Gallerie, ii. 608.

Letyr Mair, ii. 608.

Leuchars, Morayshire, i. 23a; ii.

433.
Leuras, ii. 583.
Leven, i. 299, 300; ii. I94-I99i 205»

412.
earl of, i. 296, 297, 301* 303 i "•

406.
river, Fife, i. 299, 300, 353 ; ii.

358, 403, 406.
— — Dumbartonshire, i. 353 5 iL 157,

193-200, j8o.

Lochaber, ii. 518.

Loch Lomond, ii. 602.

Levenside, i. 353.

Lewes of Fivie, i. 94.

Lewingshope, iii. 165^.

Lewis, island of, ii. 181 -185, 352, 530-

532, 600; iii. 300; description of,

by John Morisone, ii. 210.
Ley river, ii. 160.
Leyck, iL 535.
Leyes, ii. 23.
Leyragan, ii. 534.
Lhon-na-choill, ii. 563.
Lhon-whowllig icr, ii. 573.
Lhon-whowUi^ ocr, ii. 573.
Lialkub, William, of Antwerp, ii. 83.
Liberton, ii. 618, 621, 622; iii. 122.
Lichill, ii. 608.
Lichnach, ii. 568.
Lichtoune, Mr., minister in Dun, ii.

41.
Licklyhead, i. i, 3, 12.
Lickprivick, iii. 134.
Liddel, Duncan, poet, ii. 474.
phjTsician of Aberdeen, ii.

477, 480.
Liddell, John, minister of Forgandenny,

i. 126.
Lidderdail, Thomas, of Isle, ii. 57,

109.
Liddesdail, ii. 355 ; iii. 156.
Lie, iii. 134.
Lietfie, i. ill.
Liff, ii. 30, 33 ; iii. 246.
Liftingstone, iii. 208.

Ligertwood, iii. 173, 175, 217.

water, iii. 174.

Lightwater bum, i. 324.

LiUiarts Corse, battle of, iii. 137.

Liliie loch, i. 251 ; iii. 237.

Lime burning in Kirkinner, ii. 79.

Limnekilnes, i. 287, 371.

Limphoy, iii. 118.

Lin, William, of Larg, ii. 92.

Lincluden, ii. 53, 54, 56, iia, 113,

132 ; iii. 196.
Lindill, iii. 285.

water, iii. 266.

Lindisfame, i. 304 ; ii. Ji8.
Lindores, i. 304, 30 J ; ii. 405, 406.
Lindsay of Gurae, ii. 29.

ot Dunrod, ii. 205.

of Mount, iii. 96.

of Persy, ii. 37 ; iii. 246.

of Pitscandlie, ii. 28.

of Wachop, i. 390.

sir David, of the Mount, i-

304-

David de, iii. 209.

of Edzell, ii. 39.

sir Hary, of Kinfemes, ii. 38.

Ingram, bishop of Aberdeen, iL

486.

James, of Cavile, i. 290.

William, of Culsh, i. 44.

Mr., minister of Dumbarrow

Arrot, ii. 27.
minister in Marietoune, ii.

43-
Lineay, ii. 177, 529; Iii. 267, 268,

285, 289.
Linhouse, ii.6i6; iii. 1x7.

burn, ii. 615, 616.

Linlithgow, i. 317 ; ii. 622.

earl of, i. 134.

John, minister of Ewis, i. 394.

Linplum, iii. 1 14.

Linthill, iii. 183.

Lintoun, iii. 141, 145, 146, 154,

158.

loch, iii. 137.

Lintrechin river, ii. 594.

Lismore, i. 2, 13, 32; ii. 144, 155,

156,2331.516,517; iii. 271.
Lismurdie, i. 26.
Lithin water. Sg^ Leithan.
Lithonhall, i. 367.
Little, John, i. 389.

Bar, ii. 572.

Caldwall, ii. 209.

Creichie, i. 45, 63.

Dean, iii. 176, 177.

Dubbertie, ii. 238.

Dunkeld, ii. 571.

GENERAL INDEX

395

Little Fiddes, iii. 238.

France, ii. 6x8; iii. 119.

— Glennoughtie, i. 21.

Kerss, i. 320.

Kirkhill,!. 66.

Kirktoon, ii. 33.

Lenie or Lonie, i. 134, 135.

loch, i. 318.

Lour house, ii. 27.

Preston, it 619 ; iii. X2I.

Tarrel, i. 215.

Livet river, ii. 230, 253.
Livingstoune of Barroun, ii. 38.

of Drumray, ii. 195

of Memus, ii. 29.

Alexander, his description of the

parish of Dunfermline, i. 291.

sir James, of Glentirran, i. 351.

Tehan de, abb^ de Clerac, iii. 259.

Margaret, of Easter Wcems and

brumray, ii. 195.
Loan, i. 198.
Lochaber, ii. 158, 308, 358, 412, 429,

515-519, 521, 523, 525, 573-576,

596, 597» 000.
Loch Acaran, i. 182.
Loch Achachowrin, ii. 541.
Loch Achinnasheyn, ii. 539.
Loch Achray, i. 337.
Loch Achrosk, ii. ^51.
Loch Achuridigil, 1. 182.
Loch Aerisford, ii. 533.
Loch Afarig, ii. 553,
Lochaik, it. 144, 145.
Loch Ailsh, i. 202;

<h .

542, 548.

Loch Alvie, ii. 573, 574.

Lochamounthill, i. 302.

Lochan Aldamrevich, i. 199.

Loch Aninnaill, i. 199.

Loch Annessannain, i. 198.

Lochard, i. 343, 347.

Loch Ardcleanchrochan, i. 135, 136.

Loch Ardkeanknoken, ii. 566, $67.

Loch Ar^^ig (Arkgaig, Arkgaik, Air-

kag), iu 160, 519, 523.
Loch Amoffort, iii. 282.
Loch Assynt, ii. 414, 545.
Loch Atrick, iii. 210.
Loch Auchlossin, ii. 243, 261.
Loch-Aw,i. 293; ii. 147-152, 512-515,
, 536-538, 540, 593-
Loch Awich, ii. 541, 542.
Loch Ba, ii. 570 ; iii. 276.
Loch Balgayes, ii. 23, 28.
Loch Balloch, i. 129.
Loch Balmadies, ii. 23, 28.
Loch Banchar or Bennachar, i. 337 ;

ii. 551,566,567,611.

Loch Barlagan, ii. 570.

Loch Barrie, ii. 23.

Loch Berwais, ii. 185, 533.

Loch Bhran, i. 220.

Loch Blair in Goray, ii. 572.

Lochborely, i. 195.

Loch Borrowlan, ii. 600.

Loch Bracadill, ii. 222, 584.

Loch Bran, ii. 551.

Loch Branchar, ii. 550.

Loch Brandy, i. 284.

Loch Bretill, ii. 584.

Loch Breyn, ii. 601.

Loch Broom, ii. 359, 414.

Loch Brora, ii. 439 ; iii. 102.

Loch Browlyn, ii. 552.

Loch Bruyne, ii. 540, 541, 547-

Loch Bruyok, ii. 550.

Loch Buhaik, i. 312.

Loch Bulg, ii. 230, 253.

Lochbum, i. 296, 302.

Loch Burrowlan, ii. 545.

Lochbuy castle, iii. 102, 276..

Loch Calladail, L 195.

Loch of Carluvay, ii. 211, 213.

Loch of Camess, i. 142.

I^och Carroun, i. 209; ii. 4I4» 54^1

548, 601 ; iii. 94-
Loch Carynies, ii. 572..
Loch Cherossa, iii. 271.
Loch Chert, ii. 551.
Loch Cholumkill, ii. 584.
Loch Chriseness, ii. 584.
Loch Chrunachan, iL 600.
Loch na Coarach, i. 182.
Loch Coich, ii. 428, 523.
Loch Con, i. 343, 347-
Loch Connal, iii. 128.
Loch of Cree, i. 402 ; ii. 1 10.
Lochcraggie, i. 189.
Loch Cronall, iii. 129.
Loch Crospuill, i. 195.
Loch Culnabin, i. 182, 184.
Loch Culter, i. 332.
Lochdale, ii. 221.
Loch Daltinn, i. 187.
Loch Daw, ii. 563.
Loch D'awin, i. 24.
Lochdie or Lochdee, i. 405, 407; ii.

loS-iio, 131.
Lochdiff, ii. 148, 152, 153.
Loch Dinard, i. 195 ; ii. 561.
Loch Dochart, ii. 335, 534, 537, 564,

, 565. 593, 594.
Loch Dolay, iii. 102.
Loch Dormist, ii. 570.
Loch Dowich, ii. 543, 544.
Loch Dowill, ii. 548.
Loch Dowlochen, ii. 573.

896

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Loch Drommy, ii. 553.

Loch Dronky, ii. 567.

Loch Dua, ii. 185. 533.

Loch Duich, ii. 541.

Loch Dundelchaik, i. 223.

Loch Dune, i. 404 ; ii. i, 2, 3, 62, 1 29,

^ 131. 132, 585. 605.

Loch Dunv^an, iii. 282.

Loch Ear, iii. 276.

Loch Earn. i. 138 ; ii. 537, 565, 593,

^ 594,595.

Loch-Eawich, ii. 523, 524, 570, 596,

597.
Loch Ecliff, ii. 513.
Loch Einort, ii. 584.
Loch Eiracht, ii. 570, 597.
Loch Eirak, ii. 576.
Loch Eiray, ii. 576.
Loch Eisort, ii. 583, 584.
Lochell water, i. 21.
Loch Emorte, iii. 282.
Lochenabrecolich, ii. 535.
Lochend, i. 291, 293 ; iii. 114.
Lochenhill, iii. 55.
Loch Ennich, ii. 578.
Lochepetit, iii. 276.
Locherclet, i. 345r
Locheriboll, i. 195.
Loch Erigh, ii. 169-171.
Loch Esk, i. 284.
Loch Essen, ii. 535.
Loch Ew, ii. 539, 540, 601.
Loch Ewyr, ii. 5^, 570.
Loch Fadd, ii. 584.
Lochfaighin, ii. 151, 514.
Lochfallort, ii. 222, 584.
Loch Fannich (Beanderawen), ii. 551.
Loch Farelin, ii. 556.
Loch Farrachie, i. 251.
Loch Fasirt, iii. 300.
Lochfell, iii. 139.
Lochferin, ii. 163.
Loch Fitly, i. 291, 293, 302.
Loch of Fleet, ii. 131.
Loch of Forfar, ii. 23.
Loch Fyne, ii. 144-149, 186, 358, 510-

513*534, 537, 538; »i. 276.
Lochgailbe, ii. 149, 173, 5I3» 5*3,
. 593.

Lochgairt, ii. 556.
Loch Ganni, i. 182, 184.
Loch Garavad, ii. 540.
Lochgareron, ii. 560.
Loch Garlua, ii. 184, ^32.
Loch Garry, i. 221 ; ii. 169, 308, 428,

523, 596.
Lochgewsachan, ii. 596.
Lochgheanik, i. 220.
Loch Gher, ii. 149, 5^3, 537, 5^3, 593-

Loch Gilchrist, ii. 584.

Loch Glames, ii. 23.

Loch Glash, i. 212 ; ii. 555, 571.

Loch Glastiloch, ii. 562.

Loch Glen-etif, ii. 565.

Loch Glenmoire, iii. 281.

Lochgloe, i. 293.

LochGoill, i. 85, 354 ; ii. 144, 146, 149*

5", 5".
Loch Gorarain, iL 551.
Lochgorme, ii. 191.
Loch Gorsarmis, iii. 282.
Loch Goynack, ii. 574.
Lochgreen, i. 325.
Loch Grenbaeg, ii. 584.
Loch Greverin, ii. 153, 154, 515, 516.
Loch Growban, ii. 584.
Loch Grunord, ii. i89-i90, 540; iii.

27I, 275.
Lochgume (Lochhuime) castle, ii. 1741

525 ; iii. 272.
Loch Guthrie, ii. 28.
Loch Haerloish, ii. 534.
Loch Haick, ii. 511.
Loch Harry, ii. 582.
Loch Hellohald, ii. 584.
Loch Hem prig, i. 161.
Loch Herport, ii. 583, 584.
Loch Herrish, ii. 21 1-2 13.
Loch Heuure, ii. 598.
Loch Hopriloth, i. 182.
Loch Hoishyn, ii. 597.
Loch HoUom, ii. 582.
Loch Hope, i. 194; ii. 561.
Loch Horquil, i. 18 1, 182.
Lochhouse, i. 367.
Loch Huiska, ii. $84.
Lochiell, i. 31-32; ii. 158 «.
Loch Hand, iii. 240.
Lochiluani, i. 220.
Lochinbary, ii. 548.
Loch Inche, ii. 567, 577.
Lochindorb (Lochenduyrs), iL 595 ;

iii. 242.
Lochinkit, i. 396-398.
Loch Inshard, i. 196.
Loch Jem, ii. 218.
Loch Kathren (Lochcatrine), i. 1349

'35, 336, 344, 347.
Loch Keander, i. 24.
Lochkeanhowliwaig, ii. 184, 532.
Loch Ken, ii. 60, 63, 128 ; iii. 282.
Loch Kensale Serloss, iii. 282.
Loch Ketterlin, ii. 566, 567.
Loch Ketterny, ii. 566.
Loch Kilbimy, ii. 205, 591.
Loch Kildun, ii. 551.
Loch Kilkerrane, ii. 186, 527.
Loch Killin, i. 219 ; ii. 535.

GENERAL INDEX

897

Loch Kinloch, ii. 572.

Loch Kinnordie, ii. 23.

Loch Kintail, ii. 561.

Loch Kinvardochy, ii. 570.

Loch Kiserin, ii. 538.

Loch Knocki, i. 220 ; ii. 556.

Loch Krowye, ii. 551.

Loch Laggan, ii. 173, 519, 575, 599,

600.
Lochlagoill, i. 189, 191.
Loch I^ngoU or Cannord, ii. 6of .
Loch Largluy, ii. 570, 571.
Loch LediU, ii. 584.
Lochlee, i. 106-107, 264 ; ii. 37, 39.
Loch Leipan, ii. 584.
Loch Leoyle, iii. 109.
Loch Letyra, ii. 545.
Loch Leven (Argyle),ii. 157, 158, 169,

, 397, S17, S18, 523-

Loch Leven (Fife), i. 293 ; ii. 403, 406.

Loch Lewis, i. 360.

Loch Leyn, ii. 565.

Loch Libo, iii. 214.

Loch Liegachan, iii. 282.

Loch Lindores, i. 305.

Loch Lintrechin, ii. 594.

Lochhj), ii. isSn.

Loch Lochy, ii. 158- 161, 196, 308, 359,

518, 519, 523.
Loch Lomond, i. 344-3SO* 355 5 "• '92-

197, 536, 581, 593. 601.
Loch Long, i. 354, 355 ; ii. 140, 510,
^ 541, 542, 544, 592.
Loch Longcastle, ii. 78, 105.
Loch Low, ii. 593.
Loch Lowd, i. 347.
Loch Lowes, iii. 138, 139, 141.
Loch Lownort, iii. 282.
Loch Lubnack, i. 134, 135, 335, 336,

347.
Loch Lumgare, i. 265, 266.
Loch Lundie, ii. 23, 34.
Loch Lussord, i. 197.
Lochluy, ii. 431.
Loch Luychart, ii. 551.
Loch Luydan, ii. 570, 597.
Loch Lyol, ii. 442.
Lochlyon, ii. 563, 564.
Lochmaben, i. 366-369 ; ii. 127, 355 ;

iii. 128.

castle, iii. 187.

Lochmaberie, ii. 112 ; iii. 129.

Loch Maree, ii. 414.

Loch Markell (Narkel), iii. 97.

Loch Mawer, iii. 109.

Loch Meady, i. 195 ; ii. 560, 562, 601. '

Loch Micklie, ii. 550.

Loch Migdcll, ii- 545 ; iii. 102. I

Loch Miltoune, i. 237. I

Loch Mistowie, i. 2^7.

Lochmiton, ii. 54-56, 71.

Loch Moan, i. 400; ii. 110.

Loch Moir, i. 171, 212, 213.

Loch Moirlich, ii. 578.

Loch Monar, iii. 18.

Loch Monery, ii. 541, 542, 551, 552.

Lochmqre, i. 199 ; iii. 84.

Loch Moren, i. 220 ; ii. 555.

Loch Moy, ii. 434, 559, 607.

Lochmoyburge, iii. 271.

Loch Muick, ii. 242.

Loch Munlochy, ii. 554.

Loch Murour, ii. 168;/, 522.

Loch-na-CIaans, ii. 558.

Loch Nadale, ii. 189 ; iii. 282.

Lochnaelachan, ii. 584.

Loch Nagat, ii. 564, 571, 599.

Loch Nair, iii. 129.

Loch Nalaydmoir, ii. 546.

Loch Narkel, ii. 436.

Lochna Rowen-dounen, ii. 584.

Lochnashy, ii. 557.

Loch Naver, i. 188, 189; ii. 442.

Loch Navem, ii. 5^9, 561.

Lochna w, ii. 94 ; iii. 129.

Loch na Whoying, ii. 551.

Loch na-yeall, ii. 152, 514.

Loch Ness, i. 217, 220, 221, 223 ; ii.

158 «, 170, 171, 306, 308, 309, 312,

428, 518, 523-525, 550, 555-557 ; iii.

18. 19.
Loch Neves, ii. x68, 522, 525.
Lochnigelt, i. 220.
Lochnildricken, i. 401.
Loch Nonach, ii. 542.
Loch Norries, ii. 588.
Loch Ntalli Hoil, i. 183.
Loch Ochlig, ii. 158 w.
Loch Ocht, ii. 158 «.
Loch Oich, i. 221 ; ii. 169, 308, 428.
Loch Ore, i. 302 ; ii. 130, 403.
Loch Orell, i. 284.
Loch Orroid, ii. 584.
Loch Owrin, ii. 522, 542, 549.
Lochowsie, ii. 552.
Loch Park, i. 246.
Loch Pitmoues, ii. 28.
Loch Poltil, ii. 584.
Loch Portri, iii. 282.
Loch Portset, ii. 554.
Lochquech, i. 221.
Lochquharret, iii. 121.
Lochquhinnoch, ii. 205, 209; iii. 127,

213.
Loch Raraeg, it. 584.
Loch Ravinston, ii. 78.
Loch Redclok, i. 251.
Loch Remeston, ii. 85.

898

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Lochrenasay, iii. 263.

Loch Rennach, ii. 537, 551, 563, 570,

596, 597.
Loch Reacobie, ii. 23.
Loch Restennet, ii. 23, 28.
Loch Ri, ii. 183.
Loch Rian, iL 606.
Loch Ridge, i. 325 ; iL 590.
Lochrighittane, ii. 157.
Lochrim, iL 565.
Lochrogan, ii. 184, 532.
Lochrogue, iL 2x3.
Loch Rorie, i. 220 ; ii. 539.
Loch Rothymurcus, ii. 578.
Loch Rowaeg, ii. 584.
Loch Rowiskich, ii. 610.
Lochnitton, i. 395 ; ii. 53, 72.
Lochruttongate, L 397.
Loch Ryan, iL 90, 94, 116, 356, 357 ;

iiL 128.
Loch Rye, ii. 532.
Lochs of Blair in Goray, ii. 572.
Lochs of Carynies, iL 572.
Loch Sanisb, iL 187, 527.
Loch Scaford, iii. 279.
Lochscamen, ii. 548.
Lochscavan, i. 209.
Loch Sckaaieg, ii. 584.
Lochscoir, i. 198.
Loch Seafort, iL 211, 213, 221; iii.

276.
Loch Scant, iL 144, 145, 511.
Loch Selga, iii. 300.
Loch Sell, iL 543-
Loch Semple, iL 205, 206.
Loch Seul or Soell, iL 166, 521, 565.
Lochshant, ii. 222, 584.
Loch Sheil, iL 211, 212, 544.
Loch Shialy, L 182.
Loch Shin, i. 201 ; ii. 418, 419, 439,

S47i 561, 562 ; iiL loi, 102.
Loch Shurrey, i. 184.
Lochsinsort, ii. 183.
Lochsiward, ii. 184, 533.
L^ch Skahanask, iii. 282.
Loch Skeen, iiL 139, 141.
Loch Slanes, i. 195.
Loch Sleippan, iii. 282.
Loch Sletill, i. 183.
Lochsligach, ii. 582.
Loch Snasporte (Sneisport), iL 583 ;

iii. 282.
Loch Snisort, ii. 532.
Lochs of the Ix)ws, iii. 221.
Loch Spalander, ii. 4.
Loch Spcy, ii. 575.
Loch Spidell, h. 573.
Loch Spynie, ii. 307, 429, 433.
Loch Stacky, ii. 427-

Loch Stalk, L 199 ; iiL 109.

Loch Stinisaid, L 195.

Loch Stomoway, iL 210-212.

Loch Straan Aisness, i. 199.

Loch Strathmore, i. 32.

Loch Strathsenaban, iii. 276.

Loch Synn, iL 560.

Loch Tarbart, ii. 191 ; iii. 266.

L«* Tay, iL 358, 535. 537, 563, 564,

593. 594» 598, 599.
Loch Tellibart, ii. $84.
Loch Terif, ii. 556.
Lochtertyrr, iL 6n.
Loch Tinmel, ii. 597.
Loch Tolmuck, ii. 551.
Lochtoun, iiL 178.
Loch Toylle, ii. 513, 536, 57a
Loch Towagri, ii. 584.
Loch Tower, iii. 137, 158.
Loch Treig, ii. 173, 523, 596, 597.
Loch Trighittane, ii- 517. '
Loch Tully, iL 537.
Loch Turretan, ii. 538.
Lochtarrot, i. 139.

Lochty, L 83, 140, 299, 300 ; ii. 403.
Loch Ulladoil, iL 561.
Lochunnoch. See Lochquhinnocfa.
Lochard, iiL 149.
Lochurr, ii. 108, 533.
Lochvenchir, i. 134, 135.
Lochveoll, L 335, 347.
Loch Vic-ghilleir, L 183.
Loch Voirne, ii. 169, 522.
Loch Vrakdill, iii. 282.
Loch Vurkansa, ii. 584.
Lochwachlan, i. 401.
Loch Waren, ii. 548.
Loch Watstoun, iL 611.
Lochwatts, iii. 135.
Loch of Wester, i. 161.
Lochwhirr, i. 397.
Loch Whouildan, ii. 584.
Loch Wilan, i. 182, 184.
Loch wood, i. 367 ; iii. 187.
Lochyell, ii. 159* 162, 169, 359, 518,

519, 523-
Loch Yercullick, ii. 571.
Lochy river, ii. 159-161, 308, 359, 51S,

519, 535» 536.
Lockerbie (Locarby), i. 368.

house, i. 368.

Lockie, James, of Wester Catter, i.

T 353-

Lockirtoun, n. 130.
Lodety, ii. 550.
Lodging, i. 32a
Logan, ii. 588.

laird of, ii. 107.

of Balvic, ii. 194, 195.

GENERAL INDEX

399

Logan of Barncastle, iii. 175.

of Restalrig, ii. 194.

Loganhead, i. 391.
Logan house, i. 372, 393 ; iii. 129.
Logic, i. 7, i8» 2J, 32, 34, 40, 43, 47,
67, 98» 105, 136, 209, 262, 272, 274 ;

"• 30» 33» 37. 41, 359 ; ">• 247.

river, iL 594.

Logie Almond (Almonth), ii. 57 X.
Logie-Buchan, i. 97, 98, 426, 427 ; iii.

227.
Logie Diirnie, i. iS,
Logic Law, ii. 403.

Logierait (Logywreid), i. 310 ; ii. 553.
Logsa river, ii. 184, 533.
Loichscoilk, iL 607.
Loine-Keill, iii. 97.
Lollum Moss, i. 371.
Long or Luong river, ii. 358, 414.
Longbotton, i. 366.
Longbnrn, iii. 180.
Longcastle, ii. 77, 80, 85, 88, 98.
Long Cleuch, iii. 42, 56.
Long Cleuch Head, iii. 42, 43.
Long Ennell, ii. 41.
Longforgan, i. 141.
Long Forglen-moor, iii. 57.
Longformacus, iii. 185.
Longhillock, i. 234.
Longie bum, iii. 55.
Longrigs, i. 383.
Longside, L 45, 62, 66, 69, 70; ii.

619 ; iii. 227 ; description of the
• parish, bv Fergusson, i. 69.
Longwall, i. 162, 164, 165, 169.
Lonmay, i. 40, 44-47, 54, 59, 62, 66,

67, 69 ; iii. 227.
Lonmor river, i. 219.
Lonnach, L 20, 22.
Lonquhart Moir, ii. 552.
Loquhariot, ii. 619.
Loiaficld, iii. 249.
Lome, ii. 150-153. I55. 157, 358, 4",

514,515.517. 537,546; memorandum

for, 526.

frith of, ii. 358.

Lossie river, i. 229, 231, 307, 308, 428,

429, 433 ; "J- 130, 131.

Lossiemouth, i. 230.

Loth, ii. 438 ; iii. 99, 104, 106.

river, ii. 419, 438.

Loub Choyl, ii. 568.

Varar, ii. 568.

Loudoun, ii. 586.

castle, ii. 586, 589.

Loudounhill, ii. 589, 591.
Louglie burn, iii. 56.
Lounane. See Lunan.
Loure, ii. 23.

Loury, John, minister of Vachop, i.

392.
Lovat, i. 210 ; ii. 549, 552.

lord, ii. 171, 524.

castle, ii. 415.

Lovineshope bum, iii. 139.
Lowbin, ii. ^63.
Lowe loch, iii. 140.
Lowson, John, i. 115.
Loyall hill, i. x 14.
I Loydsbura, i. 314.
Loyn river, i. 219.

Tarsin, iii. 97.

; Lubnaleirey, iii. 266.
I Luce, i. 366, 369.

loch, iii. 128.

river, ii. 89, 90, 100, 107, 114,

116; iii. 128.
Luchnot, i. 48.

Lucopibium, now Whyttem, ii. 355.
Ludgill, i. 393.
Ludquhaim, i. 69 ; ii. 238.

castle, i. 45.

Luff, i. 22.

Lufford, iL 560.

Lufhess, L 374, 375 ; iiL in, 114.

Lugar water, i. 412 ; ii. 588.

Lugdoun water, ii. 587, 588, 591.

Luggy river, ii. 579.

Lu^ton, iL 617 ; iii. 119.

Luirg, ii. 536.

Luirginraid, iL 613.

Luirg Moir, ii. 552.

Lumper loch, iii. 231.

Lumisdean, iii. 183.

Lumphanan, i. loi, 102.

Lumquhat, L 297.

Lumsden, John, of Pitliver, i. 290.

Lunan Houp, ii. 43, 44.

Lunan water, i. 273, 275, 276 ; ii. 23,

27,44,45,47; i»- 221.
Luncarty, ii. 2J7, 571.

laird of, ii. 571.

Lundie, i. 279, 280 ; ii. 30, 34, 548 ;

iii. 246.

Thomas, i. 1 14.

Lundief, ii. 572.

Luon^ river. See Long.

Lurgie loch, iii. 1 77.

Luscar, L 292, 294.

Luss, L 344, 353, 354; iL 193, 195,

196.

laird of, i. 354.

Lussord, i. 196, 199.

Luther water, i. 262, 263, 267, 268 ;

iii. 236.
Luthers hill, iiL 132, 135.
Luy river, ii. 519.
Luydan, ii. 597.

400

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Lyarte isle, iii. 273.

Lybster, i. 163, 166, 184, 185; ii.

421.
Lyeck river, ii. 414, 544.
LyellofBaihaIl,ii. 38.

of Duchall, ii. 207.

of Dysart, ii. 43.

of Murthill, ii. 29.

James, lord, ii. 207.

minister in Montrose, ii. 42.

Lyleston, iii. 175.

Lynager, i. 179.

Lyndsa^. See Lindsay.

Lyne, ii. 535 ; iii. 149.

bum, i. 288-290, 293 ; iii. 142 ;

145. 154, 155-
Lyon of Balgillie, ii. 29.

of Bridgetoune house, ii. 26.

of Muiresk, ii. 238.

—^ of Easter and Wester Ogels, ii.

29.

of Whytwall, ii. 29.

sir Patrick, advocate, ii. 28, 49.

minister of Glames, ii. 26.

minister of Tannadyce, ii. 29.

minister of Rescobie, ii. 28.

Lyth, i. 176-178.

McAllane, Ewin, ii. 160, 162.
MacAlpine, Donald, of Ross, i. 345.
Macarius, St., chapel, i. 30.
Macartney, i. 396.
M°Aulay, Archbald, of Ardincaple, ii.

199-

Iskair, ii. 2x4.

M^'Bean, Lachlan, minister of Calder,

i. 226.
Macbeth, William, minister of Olrigg,

i. 175-
McBrair of New Wark, ii. 55.
Macchirmore, i. 403, 407, 408 ; ii. 71,

no. III.
MacConeil, lord, ii. 163-166, 520-526.

Donald Gorum, ii. 531, 532.

sir James, of Kintj^re, iii. 261.

of Baknay castle, ii. 555.

MacCoul of Lome, ii. 150, 175, 527.

of that ilk, ii. 150.

McCraccan, John, ii. 74.

Mcculloch, George, of Torhouse, ii.

74-
sir Godfrey, of Myrton, laird of

Cardiness, ii. 66, 86, 96, 107.

Thomas, minister of Belly, i. 240.

McDonald of Ardmidill, ii. 221.

lord, of Cantyre and Ilia, ii. 166,

167, 186, 526, 529.

of Duntalme, ii. 223.

of Fisgaill, i. 407.

M' Donald, Alastair, killed durii^ a

raid on Thurso, iii. 85.

Angus, lord of Kintyre, ii. 191.

Donald, lord of the Isles, i. 17 ;

ii. 240, 259, 416, 527.
Gorme, ii. 182, 183, 584 ;

iii. 260.

sir James, ii. 190.

James, ii. 188.

Huscheone, iii. 260.

M^^Donalds, ii. 181, 188, 192; their

Hght with the men of Inverness,

206.
M<^Dougal of Maccairstoo, iii. 162,

176.
M^'Dowal of Freuch, ii. 96.

Patrick, of Logan, ii. 97, 107.

Robert, of Logan, iL 97, 115.

William, of Garthland, iL 96.

M<:Dufr, thane of Fife, L 295 ; iii. 96.

family, ii. 407.

M 'Duffs cross, i. 305, 306.
M^'Duffithie of Colvansay, iii. 266.

captain, iii. 275.

M^'eandowie, Allan e, ii. 166.
M<^nrich of Ardkinglais casile, ii«

146.
Mac^Eirlan, laird of, i. 345 ; ii. 199.

of Inerioch, i. 355.

Andrew, of Gartartan, i. 341.

Dugall, of Tullich, i. 354.

John, of Ballaggan, i. 352.

of Finnart, i. 354.

Walter, of that ilk, notice of, L

vi.
Macfenayne, ii. 182, 531.
M^Gachen of Dowhat, iii. 205.
M^Ghie of Balmagie, iii. 96.
M<K3ilchrist, Donald, of Northbar, ii.

203.

James, of Northbar, ii. 203.

Ma(^^ of Rankeillar, i. 304.
—^ minister in Arbirlot, ii. 47.

minister in Telling, ii. 33.

MacGillayne of Doward, iii. 266, 268,

271, 272, 276, 279, 280, 283.

of Kenlochbuy, iii. 266.

of Lochbuy, iii. 280.

MacGillichallum, ii. 532.

of Raarsay, iii. 284.

M^Gilligin of Alness, i. 213.

Daniel, minister of Alness, L 213.

M<^Gilwrav of Dunmaglass, i. 225.
M<^Gouan's description of Dunblane

parish, i. 311.
MacGregor of Stron Meulachan, iL

536-
— — laird of Glenstree, iL 599.
Gregor, of Glengyle, L 336.

GENERAL INDEX

401

MacGregors of Glenstrath, ii. 149.

u. 147, 199, 512, 513.

Machany, i. 130-132.

Machermeanache, iii. 290.

Machers haugh, i. 30, 31.

Machirrs of Whithern, ii. 86, 99.

Mackaile, Matthew, iii. xiv, his de-
scription of the Orkney islands, iii.
I ; letter from, to sir R. Sibbald, 12.

McKairstone, iii. 137, 172, 176.

Mackay, chief of the clan Wickworgin,
iii. 108, 109.

lord Reay, ii. 426, 441-443.

of Doncaird, i. 402.

of Far, iii. 103.

of Larg, i. 404 ; ii. 70.

of Palgown, i. 407.

Alexander, i. 203.

Donald, lord Reay, ii. 426.

John, iii. 59.

of Palgown, i. 401.

Roy, iii. 59.

William, of Balnakile, ii. 560.

Mackays of Tongue castle, ii. 441.
McKell, Mathew, minister of Both-
well, i. 416*
McKenabrey of Colla, iii. 280.
Mackenneth, Malcolme, ii. 399*
M^Kenzie of AUangrange, i. 205.

of Applecross, i. 205, 211.

of Belmaduthy, i. 207, 208.

of Davochmaluack, i. 211.

of Easter Lathron, i. 163.

of Fairbum, i. 211.

of Highfield, i. 206.

of Inchcoulter, i. 213.

of Kilcoy, i. 205.

of Pitlundie, i. 206.

of Rosehaugh, i. 208.

of Suddie, 1. 207.

Charles, i. 238.

sir George, of Rosehaugh, ii. 35 ;

his account of the law and govern-
ment of Scotland, iii. xix. 70.

of Tarbat, extracts of several

letters by, iii. 17 ; observations made
in Scotland by, 21 ; his account of
Hirta and Rona, xv, 28.

—^ Dr. George, iii. 19.

John, minister of Tarbat, i. 216.

sir Roderick, of Scatwell, i. 208.

hon. Stuart, of Rosehaugh, I

280.

Thomas, of Pluscarden, i. 236.

minister of Tarbat, i. 216.

William, minister of Tarbat, i.

216.
Mackie. See Mackay.
M<^Kinon of Kilmirrie, ii. 221.

VOL. III.

Mackintosh, chief of, ii. 434.

of Aberarder, i. 219, 225.

of Farr, i, 225.

of Muye, ii. 607.

of Strone, L 225.

family, iii. 130.

Mack-ran-Riogh, ii. 511.
Macktyre, Paul, ii. 441 ; iii. 106.
M<^Kubbens of Knockdolian, ii. 15.

I Maclachan of Achintroig, ii. 609.

Andrew, of Drumlean, i. 343.

i John, of Achintroig, i. 348,

' McLean of Ardnamurquhan, ii. 191.
, of Cola, ii. 528.

of Dowart, ii. 521.

of Grimmet, ii. 9.

of Lochbuy, ii. 166, 520,521.

Charles, tutor of Ardgoure, ii.

165.

sir Laughlan, of Duard, ii. 190.

M<^Leans, ii. 164, 192, 219, 520.
Maclellan, John, minister of Kirkcud-
bright, ii. xvii, XX.
M^Leod of Contulich, i. 213.

of Dunvegane, ii. 210, 222.

of Glenelg, ii. 543,

of Harris, ii. 174, 176, 181-183,

525» 530-533 ; "i- 292, 296. 297.

of Lewis, ii. 184-185, 532, 533 ;

iii. 292-294, 297, 298.

Daniel, of Gainzies, i. 215.

Norman, ii. 185, 533.

M^'Lurg family, i. 406-407.
Macmath of Ahensow, iii. 200.
M^Meckin, John, ii. 93.
Mt'Naughts of Killwhanned, i. 399 ; ii.

54.
McNeill of Barray, ii. 529 ; iii. 287,
288, 289.

of Giga^, iii. 266.

Rorie, ii. 178-180.

Macoranstoun, i. 338; ii. 611.
MoPhail of Innererny, i. 225.
Macphails, ii. 442.
MoPherson of Flictddy, i. 225.

Donald, minister of Calder, i.

226.
Macphersons of Badenoch, ii. 435.
M^Rannald, Donald, lord of the Isles,

il 186.
Madderty, i. 140.

lord, i. 130.

Madie, iii. 268, 279.

Maduston, i. 316.

Maghairmoir, ii. 187, 527.

Magnus, St., landing of, at Auch-

medden, i. 49; birthplace of, iiu

306.
Maiden's castle, ii. 618.

402

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Maiden Pape, i. i68.
Maig-craig Chaillach» ii. 599.
Maillens place, i. 316.
MatUinsland, iii. 151.
Maim, ii. 536.
' Maim Chluony, ii. 544.
Maimmaij;, ii. 541.
Mains (Mayne), ii. 30, 33, 47, 194,

195. 433. 579.
castle, iii. 130.

Easter and Wester, iii. 175.

of Blairstounc, ii. 5.

of Cahoun, ii. 580.

of Kilbride, iii. 134.

Mairloch, ii. 568.

Mairtoun, iii. 129.

Maitland of Ahengashall, iii. 203.

of Eccles, iii. 203.

burn, ii. 618; iii. 119.

Major, John, birthplace of, iii. 67.

Makconstoun, ii. 611.

Makelwian, Patrick, minister of Les-

bury, ii. 82, 83.
Makmaister, ii. 164.
Malcolm, king, his monument in

Angus, iii. 95.

Rob., minister of Ewis, i. 394.

son of Kenneth, ii. 432.

Maldy, i. 198, 199.

Malie Wathiil, i. 24, 25, 28.

Malmegates, iii. 132.

Malshach, i. i, 12.

Malt, manufacture of, iii. xiv, 25.

Malzie water, ii. 113 ; iii. 128.

Mameg, ii. 542.

Mamoir, ii. 158, 163, 169, 170, 518,

523-
Man, isle of, ii. 316 n.
Manderstoun, iii. 181.
Manduf, i. 1x6.
Mangerton, iii. 162.
Mangray, ii. 213.
Mannock moor, iii. 30.

water, iii. 52.

Manorhall, iii. 150.

Manorhead, iii. 150.

Manor water, iii. 139, 145, 150, 155.

Mansland, iii. 150.

Manson, George, of Bridgend, i. 1 79.

Manual abbey, i. 317.

Map of old Scotland, notes to, by

Gordon of Straloch, ii. 355.
Mar, ii. 239, 241-244, 249, 250, 258-

263, 266, 360, 471.

Alexander, earl of, ii. 240, 259,

416.

, John, earl of, ii. 203.

* earl of, i. 64, 309 ; li. 40, 235,

241, 243, 260, 262, 597.

Marble hills, iii. loi, 102.

Marchmonth castle, iii. 157.

Mareswine, ii. 24.

Mareth, iii. 56.

Margaret, (jueen of Scotland, L 288.

Margloly, L 397.

MargY, 1. 264.
Maridell, iii.

99.
Marischal, George, earl, i. 64, 250;

ii. 237, 257 ; iii. 225-229, 238.

William, earl, i. 250 ; iii. 239.

countess, i. 251.

earl, i. 69, 70, 266 ; ii. 50, 236-

238, 244, 257, 263, 338, 387, 423i

478.

college, Aberdeen, iL 477.

Marioribanks of Dedrigs, iiL 178.

Markets and fairs, i. 311, 338,/aiM'OT.

Markinch, i. 298.

Mamoch, i. 74, 77, 87, 244.

Marshall, David, iii. 209.

Martle, i. 375.

Martyne of Grange, iii. 245.

Marwhirn, i. 397, 399.

Mary parish. Sef Aberluthnet.

Mary Bridge, i. 307.

Mary Culter, L 107, 247, 256, 261, 429,

430.
Marykirk, L 160.

of the Lowes, iii. 140.

Mary mass fair, i. 17a

market, i. 181.

Maryport, ii. 96.

Marytoun, i. 273-276 ; ii. 37, 43 ; iiL

247.
Maslie, iii. 12a
Mason, captain, iii. 199.
Massy water, ii. 600.
Masterton, ii. 619 ; iii. 121.

Charles, of Parkmill, u 308.

Mathie, Mr., minister in Inchbzaick,

ii. 43.
Matshach, i. 36.

Mattheson of Bennagfeild, i. 207.
Mauchline (MachlinJ, ii. 606.
Maule of Panmure, ii. 5a

Henry, of Melgund, iii. 245.

James, iii. 245.

Mr. , minister in Panbryd, ii. 49.

Maul-Chaillemish, ii. 552.
Mauldslie, ii. 619 ; iii. 134.
Mauls Mire, iii. 215.
Maunswell, John de, iii. 209.
Maurice illand, ii. 189.
Mawer or Far, iii. 109.
Maxton of Cultiewhey, i. 139
Maxwell, lord, ii. 208.

of Arkland, i. 399.

of Broomholm, i. 388-389.

GENERAL INDEX

403

Mavwell of Carlaverock, ii. 201.

of Kirkhouse, ii. 53.

of Telling, ii. 33.

of Muireilh, ii. 85.

of Newark, ii. 204.

of Stainley castle, ii. 202.

David, i. 407.

George, of Newark, ii. 204.

sir John, of Calderwood, ii. 204,

John, ii. 206.

sir Patrick, of Newark, ii. 198, 206.

Robert, of Tinnell, iii. 206.

colonel William, of Cardiness, i.

407.
sir William, of Muirreith, ii. 86,

87, 107, 117.

of Sprinkell, i. 393.

May island, ii. 405 ; iii. 218, 22a

water, i. 125, 138.

Mayboll, ii. 4-X0, 16-21, 586.

presbytery, ii. x8.

Mayfair, i. 102.

Meaassin, ii. 582.

Mealanchoich, ii. 551.

Mealbuy, ii. 563.

Mealdnachoich, ii. 551.

Meal dyrry Mackone, ii. 596.

Mealfourvouny, i. 223.

Meal-Greish, ii. 555.

Mealistay island, ii. 2x2.

Mealloch, ii. 178.

Meal-na-gaur, ii. 603.

Meal-nin-rinae, ii. 568.

Meal Ptermochan, ii. 536.

Mealvich, i. 182.

Mearan water, ii. 563.

Meams, ii. 43, 208, 210, 224, 242, 261,

361,470; iii. 126, 127.
Mearock mountain, i. 40X.
Meckle Binn. See Meikle Binn.
Medane water, iii. 133, 145, 149.
Meddill glen, ii. 168.
Meddinhead, iii. 150.
Medicinal wells, i. xix, 100; ii. liii,

4, 59» 65, 70, 94, 222, 246, 407 ; iii.

122.
Meen water, i. 372.
Meetlaw, i. 70.
Megaly, iii. 286.
Megemy, ii. 562.
Megevy, ii. 556.
Meggat water, i. 360; iii. 144, 145,

152, 165.
Meggathead, iii. 156. \

Megillpots, iii. 164. i

Meginnes loch, ii. 583. 1

Meigle, i. 109, 277-279; il 21, 238;

iii. 222. '

Meigle, presbytery of, ii, 34.

Meikle, Alex., minister of Vachop, i.

392.
.Meikle Binn, i. 326 ; ii. 581.
Meikle Budgate, i. 224, 228.
Meikle Creichie, i. 63, 64.
Meikledale, L 394.
Meikle Ferry. Se£ Port-nc-couter.
Meikle Glennoughty, i. 21.
Meikleholm, i. 388.
Meikle- Loure, iL 26 ; iii. 244.
Meikle Tarrel, i. 214.
Meikle wood, i. 352.
Meiknes, ii. 183, 531.
Meinster, ii. 599.
Meitines water, iii. 1 32.
Meldrum i. i, 9-12, 82, 83, 31a
Meldrums of Hatton, L 93.
Meiers, i. 42.

Melgund, i. 275 ; ii. 28 ; iii. 245.
Mellerstanes, iii. 175.
Melmet, ii. 557.
Melness, i. 190.
Melrose, i. 47 ; iii. 160.
monastery, ii. 318, 319, 346 ; iii.

136, 1 58; inscription in, xxi. 162.
Melsach, i. 15.
Melverd, ii. 150, 514.
Melvill house, i. 296, 303.

castle, iii. 119.

Jo., minister of Ewis, L 394.

Melvm, Andrew, ii. 13.

Melvke, i. 186.

Memsy, i. 47, 55.

Memus, i. 286 ; ii. 29.

Mendick, iii. 141.

Menislcr river, ii. 540.

Menmure, i. 274 ; ii. 37» 38 ; iii.

247. ... „

Menock water, ii. 14 ; ui. 198, 200.
Mensal churches, i. xziii.
Menstrie, i. 136.
Menteth, sir Murdo, of Rowiskich,

ii. 610.
Menyers, Robert de, iii. 209.
Menzenise, iii. 282.
Menzies, silver mine at, iii. 54, 56.

of Castlehill, iii. 201. .

of Kinmund^, i. 85.

of Lethem, 1. 377.

of Pitfodels, ii. 475. 478, 480,

484 ; iii. 240.

of Weems, iii. 202.

Alex., of Woodend, i. 140.

Gilbert, of Findon, ii. 482.

Patrick, treasurer of Aberdeen,

ii. 480, 482.
sir Thomas, provost of Aberdeen,

iii. 102.
sir William, of Gladstones, 1.377.

404

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Mercer of Monclour, ii. 572.

ofTodlae, i. 77.

James, of Clavage, i. 123.

Mercers of Adie, iii. 222.

Mercha&ts isle, iii. 274.

Merchiston, ii. 618 ; iii. 119.

— - laird of, ii. 61 1.

Merlin, burial-place of, iii. 153.

Mermaids at Pitsligo, iii. 228.

Mernoch yland, ii. 566, 613.

Mersingtoun, iii. 178.

Mertarge, iii. 296.

Merton, ii. 87 ; iii. 175, 176.

Messin Tullich, ii. 576.

Metals and minerals in Scotland, iii.
16, 54. See also Gold, Iron, etc.

Methie, ii. 25, 27 ; iii. 245.

Methil, i. 299.

Mcthlick, i. 2, 13, 43, 94, 98 ; iii. 227.

Methven, ii. 571.

Meuloch, ii. 568.

Mevanise islands, ii. 316.

Mewla illand, ii. 177, 529.

Mey, i. 152, i S3-

——' castle, ii. 423.

Michael fair, i. 105.

Michall water, i. 337.

Micklebin. See Meikle Binn.

Micklie Icrach, ii. 550.

Micklie Ocrach, ii. 550.

Mid Bealty, i. 102.

Midding Coatts, iii. 132.

Middlebee, i. 372, 388; ii. 127.

Middle Gormock, ii. 572.

Middleholm, i. 388.

Middle Lorn^ ii. 150.

Middleridge, i. 125.

Middlestead, iii. 167.

Middlethrid, iii. 177.

Middletoun, i. 276 ; ii. 200.

earl of, ii. 43.

Henry, in Clerkhill, iii. 229-

Patrick, his description of New-
bottle, i. 373.

Middlevard, ii. 188.

Midganzies, i. 215.

Midlothian. See Edinburgh.

Midmar, i. 96, xoi.

Midslope, iii. 166.

Mid-milwood, ii. 588.

Miglo water, i. 295 ; ii. 403.

Mievie, i. 19, 22-27.

Milbank, ii. 209.

Mildevein, ii. 198.

Milhill, i. 47.

Milk water, i. 369.

Milkiston, iii. 151.

Mill (Miln) of Aden, i. 66.

of Balnacraig, i. 103.

I Mill of Bealty, i. 105.

j of Glume, i. 96, 97.

• of Graigmyle, i. 102.

of Dennily, i. 106.

' of Desk, L to6.

of Ennets, i. 103.

' of Kincardine, i. 102.

I of Mathers, iii. 236.

I of Mid Bealty, i. 102.

of Tomads, i. 103.

Millanderdaill, ii. 586.

Millanninleay, iii. 97.

Millbum, L 295.

Millbuy, i. 207, 208.

Milldriggen, ii. 113.

Millentcl, i. 369.

Miller of Glenlie, i. 412.

Millergheard, ii. 171.

Miln, James, provost of Montrose, iiu
247.

Dr., letter from, to sir Andrew

Balfour, iii. 15.

Milnab, i. 139.

Milnflatt, i. 383.

Milnhall, i. 320.

Milston burn, i. 313.

Miltown, i. 2x3, 264; iii. 134.

of Golquhoun, ii. 200.

of Keith, i. 89.

of Urr, i. 397.

Minchmore, i. 360; iii. 141, 169.

Mineral wells, i. 392; iii. 169, 187,
188, 192, 210, 228.

Minerals, memorandum of, from coL
Borthwick, iii. 54.

Mines and minerals, iii. xv, zviii, 16,
30, 55- See also Gopper, Gold, etc.

Minfod, ii. ^91.

Mingeness, li. 583.

Minigaff, ii. 62, 66-72, 75, 86, 88, 99-
103, 106, 108, 129-132; iii. 128;
description of the parish, i. 400.

Mininie, i. 94.

Minnegog, i. 310 ; ii. 573.

Minniman, John. i. 141.

Minnock water, i. 401, 402.

Minto, ii. 209; iii. 158.

hill, iii. 137.

house, iii. 137.

Mistilaw, ii. 209.

Mitchelhill, iii. 151.

Mitchell of Tbainstoim, i. 9.

Gadie, of Achanacie, i. 90.

Thomas, i. 141.

Mochaster, i. 336.

Mochrum, ii. 70, 77, 78, 8589, 98, Ioi>
106, X 15- 1 17, 126; iii. 128, 129.

loch, ii. 4, 113.

Mochryhalb well, 1. 105.

GENERAL INDEX

405

Moffiit, L 366, 367 mineral wells, iii.

187, 188, 210.
Moir or Air- Law, iii. 56.

James, of Leckie, i 351.

William, of Invernettie, i. 39.

mathematician, ii. 469.

Moirluich, ii. 598.
Molas isle, iii. 264.
Mollence, i. 396.
MoUochisle, i. 337; ii. 566.
Molucca beans, iii. 23.
Momberger, iii. 139.
Momewlach, i. 84.
Monarr, ii. 539.

river, ii. 553.

Monastery of Cistercians, i. 63, 64.

Monastic orders in Teviotdale, iii. 158.

Monaughty, i. 237.

Monboddo, i. 268, 270.

Monclour, ii. 512.

Mondovie, i. 341.

Monduy, ii. 567.

Monelie, i. 37.

Moniaive water, iii. 405.

Monich-Ieac-ganich. See Monikleaga-

nich.
Moniefieth, ii. 23, 30, 32 ; iii. 245.
Monie na Crowach, ii. 570.
Monikie, ii. 30, 32 ; iii. 245.
Monikleaf;anich, ii. 147, 512.
Monimail, i. 296 ; description of the

parish, by John Taylour, i. 303.
Monin D'awin, i. 24.
Monkland, i. 318, 417, 419; ii. 7, 16,

579; iii. 134, 135-
Monkrieg, i. 377 ; iii. 114.
Monks Moss, i. 297.
Monktoun, i. 409, 410 ; ii. in Mid-
lothian, 616, 617, 619; iii. 1x8.
Monktonhall, ii. 617 ; iii. 118.
Monkwood, ii. 19, 585, 606.
Monnygaste, ii. 63.
Monquhitter (Montwhitler), i. 43, 48,

61, 78. 79i9i,92; iii. 227.
Monquich, i. 254, 256.
Monro of Cowl, i. 213.

of Culcraigie, i. 213.

of Fowlis, ii. 416.

of Fyrers, i. 213.

^— of Novar, i. 213.

of Teaninich, i. 213.

Andrew, minister of Creich, i.

203.

minister of Thurso, i. 174.

David, of Craigtoun, i. 184.

minister of Reay, i. 185.

minister of Tarbat, i. 3 1 6.

Donald, dean of the Isles, his

genealogies of the chief clans of the

Isles, iii. 260 ; his description of the
Western Isles, iiL 262.

Monro, Hector, minister of Wattin, i.
180.

Hugh, minister of Tarbat, i. 217.

John, minister of Alness, i, 213.

minister of Reay, i. 185.

minister of Tarbat, i. 216.

Robert, minister of Creich, i. 203.

Mons water, iii. 133.

Montbemger, iii. 165.

Montblairy, i. 48, 77, 244, 245.

Montcoffer, i. 48.

Monteith, i. 340, 343 ; ii. 565, 566.

earl of, i. 340, 348.

regent of Scotland, L 338, 343.

of Egilsha, iii. 3.

Montgomerie of Coilsfeild, i. 41 x.

of Punoon, ii. 201.

of Skelmorly, ii. 209.

captain Alexander, ii. 109.

James, of Weitlands, his descrip-
tion of Renfrewshire, iii. 125.

sir Robert, of Skelmorly, ii. 209.

Montgomerystone, ii. 19.

Montgrenan, ii. 591.

Mont Inervar, iii. 135.

Montjadifoord, iii. 132.

Montrose, i. 262, 272, 273 ; ii. 21-23,
37, 40.43, 201, 361.

duke of, i. 315, 319, 343-345. 348,

350,411,424.

earl of, iii. 8.

James, marquis of, iu 197.

Montroymont, ii. 28, 44.

Monyabrigh, ii. 578.

Monyboll, ii. 606

Monygegg, ii. 60a

Mony-Helaeg, ii. 546.

Mony Kabbock, i. 84.

Monymusk, i. 6, xi, 17; Jaffray's de-
scription of the parish, L 94.

castle, ii. 244, 262.

Mony-nach water, ii. 566.

Mony.nedy, iL 597.

Monyrioch, ii. 541, 549i SS^'

Mony Riochar, ii. 551.

Mony Wraky, ii. 567.

Monrie (Munnie),i. xo, 82, 83, 139, 303.

Moodie, George, i. 146.

Moorbum, iii. 152.

of Skirline, iii. 149.

Moorcleuch, iii. 175.

Moore of Achindrain, ii. 10.

Dr. Andrew, ii. 488.

Moorfoot hills, ii. 619.

Moorhouse, iii. 247.

Moraness castle, iii. 252.

Morar, ii. 359.

406

GEOGRAPHICAL COIJ^CTIONS

Moray, ii. 224, 232, 250, 254, 266,
3x2, 360, 427 ; description of, ii.
306, 427 ; iii. 130.

firth, ii. 224, 235, 250, 254, 256,

306, 312, 360, 413, 415, 428. 554.
earl of, i. 293, 337, 338, 385 ; ii.

307. 397, 431, 432, 43S. 627.

of Arthurstone, iii. 222.

of Clardon, i. 272.

of Hadden, iii- 162.

of Pennyland, iii. 87.

of Pulrossie, i. 200.

Anthony, of Dolarie, i. 138, 140.

sir Archibald, iii. 150.

sir David, iii. 152.

James, earl of, ii. 252.

sir James, of Philiphaugh, i. 358.

sir John, of Philiphaugh, iii. 140.

John, of Philiphaugh, i. 357, 359,

363.

of Stenhope, iii. 147.

Richard, of Broughton, ii. 65, 84.

of Mugdnim, i. 305.

of Spittlehaugh, iii. 146.

sir Robert, iii. 20; on tides in

the Orkneys, 7, 10 ; on making malt,

xiv, xvi, 25.
sir William, of Abercaimy, i. 137,

X39.
col. William, of Bowhill, i. 358,

363.

Wm., of Cardonn, iii. 152.

of Romanno, iii. 147.

sir Wm., of Stenhope, iii. 151,

Mordingtoun, iii. 173, 182, 184.

More, Archibald, of Gartness, i. 420.

More-inch, ii. 564.

Morham, i. 375 ; iii. 1 14.

Moril-Be?, ii. 558.

Morilmoir, ii. 558.

Morinshin, ii. 569.

Morislaw, iii. 162.

Morison, Donald, his Traditions of the

Western IsleSy ii. xxxii.
John, of Lewis, ii. xxiv, 210 ; his

description of the Lewis, ii. xxxi.

minister of Boleskin, i. 218.

Morison's Haven, iii. iii.
Moristoun, Easter and Wester, iii. 175.

water, ii. 171, 524.

Moritoun, ii. 555.
Mormeer, iii. 134.
Mormonth, i. 40, 44, 56, 60, 64, 1 16,

"7; ii. 235,258.
Momipea, i. 295.
Moroan, iii. 278.
Morpet, iii. 120.
Morphie, i. 264.
Morroch, ii. 544.

.Morrorib, ii. 156.

Morrour, ii. 168, 517, 522.

Morruy, ii. 583.

Morthlach, i. 26, 79, 80, 88 ; ii. 230,

231, 485; Ferguson's description <^

the parish, i. 87, 245.
Mortimer of Achinbaidy, i. 77.
Morton, i. 365, 371, 372, 387 ; iii. Ii7»

181, 207; castle, 208.

earl of, iii. 33-36, 40.

of Leven, ii. 202, 205.

Adam, of Leven, ii. 205.

James, earl of, iii. 149.

Robert, earl of, i. 148.

Mortonhall, ii. 618; iii. 120.

Mortullich, ii. 253.

Morven, i. 25, 168; ii. 243, 261.

Morwenside, i. 316-319, 322.

Morwhirn, i. 395.

Mosett burn, ii. 262.

Mosilie, iii. 164.

Moss, i. 349 ; ii. 580.

Moss of Arnehall, iii. 238.

of Craigie, iii. 238.

of Kendale, i. 9.

of Wartle, i. 5.

Mossat, i. 21, 22, 30, 31.

Moss Cannal, i. 322, 323.

Mossfeild, i. 82.

Moss- Flanders, i. 341.

Mossknow, i. 372.

Moss-mad, i. 104.

Moss Mowovine, i. 293.

Moss Raploch, i. 406.

Mostower, iii. 137.

Mottrie bum, ii. 403.

Mouat« See Mowat.

Moubray, James, minister of Vachop,

i. 392.
Moucar loch, i. 291.
Moulchentirach, ii. 549.
Mouling, ii. 598.
Moune illand (Mowne), ii. 158, 170,

518. 523- .
Mount, the, 1. 304 ; iii. 149.
Mount Battock, iii. 238.
Mount Blair, i. 112, 113.
Mountbum, iii. 149.
Mountgerrie, i. 35.
Mount Meg cannon, ii. 64.
Mount Skormivarr, ii. 417.
Mourvalgan, ii. 556.
Mousehall kirk, i. 369.
Moutray of Rescobie, i. 302.
Mou-yrlonich, ii. 535.
Moveme, ii. 156, 166, 169, 359, 517,

52r, 523.
Mow, iii. 137.
Mowadill, ii. 560, 562.

GENERAL INDEX

407

Mowat of Balquhollie, i. 42, 46, 92,

153,155.

of Dumbreck, etc., ii. 238.

of Fasyde, iii. 177.

of Swingie, iii. 87.

Mo watts, ii. 423.

Mower, ii. 86.

Mowlin castle, ii. 598.

Moy, i. 210, 224, 228.

Moydart,ii. 156, 166,312,359,517.521.

Moyness, ii. 432.

Muchalls, i. 247, 254, 255 ; iii. 236.

Muck illand, ii. 175.

rivulet, ii. 3.

Muckairn (Mucarne), ii. 148, 152, 1 53,

Muckersie, 11. 571.
Muckrach, iii. 242.
Mucra burn, iii. 138.
Muddhave loch, iii. 138.
Mudilloch, i. 189.

river, i. 189.

Mugdel, i. 310.
Mugdock, ii. 579, 605.
Murdrum, i. 116, 304-306.
Muick river, ii. 242, 551.
Muikeet, iii. 57.
Moir of Abcrcom, ii. 209.

of Caldwell, ii. 209.

of Cassincarry, ii. 129.

William, of Caldwell, ii. 209.

of Glanderstoun, ii. 208.

Muir (Moor) of Clova, i. 30.

of Montroymont, ii. 28.

ofOrhill, i. 128.

of Pitsligo, i. 41, 44.

of Rhynie, i. 2.

Muirailhous, ii. 554.
Muirdyke, i. 333, 334.
Muireaik, i. 74.
Muiresk, i. 42, 92 ; ii. 238.
Muirestowne, ii. 12,615.
Muir Evandich, i. 20, 23.
Muirhead of Bradisholme, i. 418.

George, of Stevenson, i. 421.

James, of Bridgholme, i. 421.

Muirhous, ii. 45.
Muirhousedykes, ii. 616.
Muirkirk, ii. 588.
Muirtoun, i. ill, 274.
Muiryfolds, i. 281.
Mulbuy, ii. 554.
Mulcal, ii. 236, 244, 263.
Mulchaich, ii. 553.
Muldarie, i. 89.
Muldron bum, ii. 614.
Mulewell, i. 395.

Mull, ii. 150, 188, 2i6-2i8, 317, 526,
527, 592 ; iii. 275.

Mull of Galloway, ii. 52, 72, 97, 115,

355.

Mullergheard, ii. 524.

MuUocb, i. 259.

Mulmoyry's isle, iii. 272.

Mulrane burn, iii. 115.

Mulruy, ii. 548.

Mumeral bum, i. 323.

Mund, Sandy, discovers a silver mine,
iii. 48.

Munesry, i. 179.

Mungal, i. 321.

Mungate, i. 324.

Mungislot, ii. 584.

Munlochy, i. 207 ; ii. 4154 554.

Munnach, ii. 68, 71, no.

Muntluckwell, ii. 97.

Munygape, i. 367.

Murdeshstoun, ii. 611 ; iii. 134.

Murdoch of Comloddan, i. 404, 405,
408.

Murieston. Se^ Muirestowne.

Murkle, i. 171 ; iii. 84, 85.

Murlagan, ii. 567.

Murquhenich, ii. 167.

Murray. See Moray.

Murrayes, ii. 30, 32; iii. 120, 1 34.

Murraywhat, i. 370.

Murrow, John, epitaph in Melrose
abbey, iii. 162.

Murrulagan, ii. 536, 597.

Murthill, i. 285 ; ii. 29.

Murthholm, i. 388, 390.

Murthlie, ii. 571.

Muschet of Bumbank, i. 339.

of Cailichat, i. 338.

James, of Craighead, i. 338.

I Musehillock, iii. 231.

I Mussal, i. 194.

. Musselburgh, ii. 614, 617, 620; iii.

I 118, 121.

I Muthill, i. xxiv, 12S, 311.

I Muy, ii. 607.

Muybcg, ii. 551, 559, 607, 608.
I Muy-Etre-ta- Loch- Erich, ii. 600.

Muymoir, ii. 607.

Mye, i. 348.

My In, Walter, martyr, in. 238.

Mylnbum, i. 390, 391.

Mylnholm, i. 388.

Myres, i. 295.

Myresuypes isle, iii. 273.

Myrton, i. 83, 136 ; ii. 86, 87, 117.

Naban, iii. 278.

Nacharrache, iii. 288, 295.

Nachlan, St.,i. II.

Nagawna or Ngoyneyne, iii. 268, 283.

Nahakersait, iii. 288.

408

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Naid-Beg, ii. 576.

Naid-Moir, ii. 576.

Nairn, i. 225, 226, 231 ; ii. 173, 307,

308, 360, 430, 431, 434.
river, i. 225, 226, 231 ; ii. 172,

307. 3o8»3",428, 43i»434.
Naime of Baldovane, ii. 34.

of Sanfoord, ii. 34.

Naimhouse, i. 31a
Na Keandmoir, ii. 565.
Na-lochen, ii. 596.
Namucke, iii. 275.
Nanaose, iii. 267.
Na Naun, iii. 293.
Naneache, iii. 295.
Napier of Ballikinrain, i. 349.

of Ballochern, i. 350.

of Napierstoun, i. 353.

Alex., of Blackstoun, ii. 206.

George, of Kilmahew, ii. 198.

Margaret, of Kilmahew, ii. 198.

John, of Kilmahew, ii. 198.

Nariff, ii. 596.

Narnes of Mukersie, etc., ii. 571.
Namia or Seaburgh, i. 235.
Nasmith, James, of Posso, iii. 150.
National covenant signed at Ewis, i.

394-
Natural curiosities, iii. 93, 94.
Navar, i. 213 ; ii. 37, 38 ; iii. 247.

loch, i. 188.

river, i. 188, 189; ii. 424-426, 441,

559-
Nave (Nefe) isle, ii. 191 ; iii. 275.
Naver Edzel, i. 274.
Navetie, ii. 554.
Nawissoge, iii. 269.
Neant river, ii. 152, 514.
Neasairn, iii. 97.

Nectan, bishop of Aberdeen, i. 84, 85.
Neills Craigs, iii. 123.
Neilsiston loch, ii. 4.
Neilson of Barnkylie, i. 399.

Gilbert, of Craigcaffie, ii. 92.

Neilstoun, ii. 208 ; iii. 127.
Nenthom, iii. 172, 173, 177.
Ness, ii. 184, S3*, 533-

river, i. 204, 223; ii. 172, 306

308, 312, 428, 430, 555 ; iii. 130.
Nesse Poynte isle, iii. 273.
Nethane water, iii. 133.
Nether Achinreath, i. 242.
Nether Airlie, ii. 35, 36 ; iii. 246.
Nether Baillielie, iii. 167.
Nether Banchory, i. 429.
Nether Bar, i. 396-398.
Nether Bams, iii. 164.
Netherbie, i. 386.
Nether Bow, ii. 626.

Nether Byre, iii. 183.

Nether Cramond, iii. 117, 118.

Nether Cranston, ii. 619 ; iii 121.

Nether Dallachie, i. 242.

Nether Fairbum, i. 211.

Nether Fomocht, ii. 572.

Nether Glenyla, ii. 35, 36.

Nether Killiewhannedie, i. 396.

Nether Kinmundie, i. 45.

Nether Liberton, ii. 618 ; iii. 120.

Nether Liff, ii. 34.

Nether Loch of the Lowes, iii. 138.

Nether Lome, ii. 150.

Nether Mains, iiL 178.

Nethermoor, i. 44, 61 ; ii. 238.

Nether Mordingtoun, iii. 183.

Nether Newtoun, iii. 132.

Netherplace, i. 368.

Nether Pollok, iii. 127.

Nethenird, iii. 149.

Nether Whitfeild, iii. 146.

Nethie water, iii. 243.

Neuck house, i. 316, 372.

Nevay, i. 277.

Neves river, ii. 158, 159, 518, 597.

Nevoy, ii. 35 ; iii. 246.

of that ilk, ii. 35, 50.

minister of Over and Nether Glen-
yla, ii. 36.
New Abbey (Newabbay), ii. 53-60, 71,

122, 130, 132; iii. 196.
Newark, i. 359; ii. 9, 19, 204; iii.

127, 139, 140, 166, 214.
Newbie, i. 371, 385; iii. 187, 190.
Newbigging, i. 2, 3, 14, 292, 294 ; iL

33 ; iii. 175, 178.
Newbottle, i. 373 ; ii. 619, 620, 622 ;

iii. 120, 121.
Newbridge, i. 301.

Newburgh, i. 97, 98, "5. "6, 300;
ii. 235, 238, 256, 405; iii. 166;
description of the pansh, by John
Tavlour, i. 304.
Newbyres, ii. 619 ; iii. 120.
Newbyth, iii. 114.
New Dalgamo, iii. 207.
New Deer, i. 43, 44, 57, 60, 78, 98,
426, 427 ; iii. 227; description of, by
Fergusson, i. 61.
Newgait, ii. 46.
New Galloway or Newtoun, L. 397;

ii. 62, 63, 108.
New Grange, i. 276 ; ii. 4^.
I Newhall, i. 280; ii. 619; iii. 114, 12a
I Newhaven, ii. 617; iii. 1 18.
Newhills, i. 99, ^07.
Newhouse, iii. 166.
! New Killpatrick, i. 349.
i New Ladykirk, i. 380.

GENERAL INDEX

409

Newlands, Hi. 145, 147, 154, 155. |

New Lesly, i. i6 ; iii. 54, 55.

New Machar, i. 2, 8, 13, 98 ; a short

account of the parish, 84. |

New Mains, i. 368.
Newmans-walls, i. 273.
Newmiln, i. 22, 90, 91, 277, 328, 329 ;

ii. 586, 589, 606.
cloth manufactory, i. 377 ; iii. 67,

112, 114.
New Monkland, i. 414, 417, 419.
Newmore, laird of, i. 203,
Newpark, i. 7S.
Newton, i. 5, 15, 125, 200, 263, 297, I

325. 337, 366, 383; ii. 209. 617, 1

622 ; iii. 114, "8, I37, I77, 209. I

castle, i. 411. '

-: sir Richard, iii. 1 14.

Newtoun in Angen, iii. 56.

Newtoun Don, iii. 184.

Newtoun Gairy, i. 86.

Newtoun-Lees, iii. 1 14.

Newtoun of Blair, ii. 572.

Newtoun of Garioch, i. 36.

Newtoun of Park, i. 87.

Newtoun-upon-Air, i. 410. I

Newtyle, i. 98, 109, 277,279; ii. 34, 35- I

Newyairds, iii. 212. I

New Yester, iii X14.

Nick of Holms Head, iii. 152.

Nicolson, Thomas, lawyer, ii. 473.

Niddrie, ii. 618; iii. 119, 120.

Nigel's Rock, ii. 622, 624.

Nigg, i. 107.

Nihtansyde, ii. 209.

Nine Maidens Well, i. 34, 50.

Ninewells, iii. 182.

Ninian, St., ii. 86.

Nisbet, iii. 181.

of Drummie, ii. 28.

of Johnstoun, ii. 206.

of West Nisbet, iii. 184.

Alex., minister of Shapinsha, i.

147.

Archibald, of Carphin, i. 421.

Euphame, of Hillhead, i. 421.

Nisort, ii. 583.

Nith river, ii. 52-56, X29, 130, 132,

^ 355. 588.

Nithsdale, ii. 52-56, 61, 108, 126-131,

355-
earl of, i. 389, 399 ; ii. 55-58, 71 ;

iii. 206.
Noble of Ardardan, ii. 198.

of Noblestoun, ii. 20a

Humphray, ii. 198.

William, li. 198.

Nochtie river, i. 20-22, 37 ; ii. 243,

262.

Noerberg, ii. 556.

Nonach, ii. 542.

Noran water, i. 274, 285, 286.

Norham, i. 378-381.

Norie, Mr., minister of Lethnet and

Lochlie, ii. 39.
Norries of Aberdeen, ii. 474.
Norman's Law, ii. 403.
Normingill, iii. 56.
Northbar, i. 424 ; ii. 203.
North Berwick, i. 377; ii. 8; iii. 114.
North Calder water, iii. 133.
Northdun, L 179, 180.
Northesk, i. 262-267, 274 ; ii. 22, 39-

42, 358, 617-621 ; iii. 1 18-120.

earl of, ii. 26, 27, 44, 45.

Northfidle-hill, iii. 55.
Northfield, i. 42, 47, 177, 178, 332.
North Lesly, i. 41.
North Loch, ii. 625.
North Ronald say, iii. 302.
Norihsheill, iii. 150.
Northtarrie, ii. 45'
Northumberland, earl of, i. 384.
Northwaterbridge, i. 274.
Norton, ii. 616 ; iii. 117.
Nosshead, i. 157, 159; iii. 85.
Noth, i. 33, 36.
Notyr-gannich, ii. 602, 603.
Nowach, ii. 603.
Nowangh, ii. 601.
Numeltoun Law, iii. 184.
Nungate, i. 376 ; iii. 67.
Nunland, i. 375 ; iii. 182.
Nunray, iii. 114.
Nuntoun, ii. 132.
Nun yeards, i. 326.
Nutholme, i. 369.
Nybster, i. 157, 159-

Oakshawhead, iii. 215.

Oakwood, i. 358 ; iii. 167.

Oards, i. 34.

Oathlaw, ii. 37.

Ocbuster, ii. 421.

Ochill hills (Oachall, Ockle), i. ii6,

119, 136, 3"» 3»3; ii- 354, 403,

608.
Ochiltrie, i. 412 ; ii. 558.

loch, iii. 129.

Michael, bishop of Dunblane, i.

128, 131.
Ochirro, ii. 552.

Ochterarder. See Auchterarder.
Ochter-Ellen, ii. 238, 239.
Ochter Gevyn. See Auchtergaven.
Ochterles. See Auchterless.
Ochtertyre, i. 339 ; ii. 34.
Ochtow, i. 200 ; ii. 546, 569*

410

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Ockell river. See Oikil.
Ockingill, i. 157.
Ocra, li. 546.
Ocreach, ii. 535.
Ocumster, i. 167.
Ofrim, iii. 272.
Ogestoun, iii. 174.
Ogilvie of Airdoch, i. 73.

of Balfour, ii. 37, 50.

of Bankhead, i. 75.

-ofClova, i. 283.

of Cluny, i. 112.

of Glenquharitie, ii. 37.

— of Inche Martyne, ii. 572.

of Innerarite, ii. 29.

of Innerlounane, iii. 247.

of Inshewane, ii. 29.

of Kinnatie, ii. 29.

■ of Lent rat bene, ii. 50.

of I^ogie, ii. 30.

of Newhall, i. 280.

of Peel I, ii. 37.

of Persic, ii. 37 ; iii. 246.

-f sir David, i. 257 ; ii. 29.

sir Francis, of New Grange, ii. 44.

sir George, i. 77.

• James, of Achires, i. 40.

Jon., of Pitmowes, ii. 47.

sir Thomas, i. 283 ; ii. 29.

Tho., of Kinalty, his description

of the parishes of Cortachie and

Clova, i. 281.

Wm., his description of nine

parishes, i. 72.

Mr., minister in Lentrathene, ii.

37.
Ogilvies at the battle of Kilsyth, i.

281.
Ogle burn, ii. 565.
Oglebee castle, i. 137.
Ogstoun, Andrew, minister of Cannes-
bay, i. 154.
Oich river, i. 221, 223 ; ii. 158 «.
Oikil river, i. 200-202, 214; ii. 417,

418^ 437-439, 546, 547, 568, 569;

iii. 97, 100, 106.
Old Cammes, iii. 183, 184.
Oldeam. See Auldearn.
Old Deer, i. 44-46, 59, 60, 65, 68, 69,

97, 98; iii. 226, 227; Willox's

description of, i. 62.
Old Doveran, i. 26.
Old Duffus, i. 230.
Oldhamstocks, iii. 184.
Old Killpatrick, i. 353.
Old Machar, i. 99, 107.
Old Medai i. 44.
Old Meldrum, i. 6-1 1, 17, 1 8, 28, 35,

36. 83, 86, 93, 97-99.

Old Miln, i. 25.

Old Monkland, i. 414, 417, 418.

Old Montros, ii. 43.

Old more, i. 89, 241.

Old Moss, i. 297.

Old Pow, i. 329.

Old Rain, L 5.

Oldrig, i. 151.

Oldshirebeg, i. 196, 199.

Oldshire Moar, i. 196, 199.

Oldweek castle, iii. 86.

Oliphant (Olyphant), lord, ii. 50.

of Condy, L 125.

James, of Gask, i. 140.

minister of Wick, i. 162.

Robert, of Rossie, L 125.

Oliphants, i. 160.

Oliver, George, minister of Reay, u

'85. , ...

castle, ni. 153.

Olrick, i. 170, 171, 174-176; iii. 86.

Olyphant. See Oliphant.

Onitsyd, ii. 608.

Oran, St., ii. 216.

Oransay, iii. 282.

Orb, ii. 612.

Orbiston, i. 422; ii. 204; iiu 134.

Orcas, ii. 352, 359.

Orcharthead, i. 325-327.

Orchill, i. 138, 313.

Ord. i. 167, 168, 211, 244; ii. 359,

418, 421, 436, 437, 441, 583 ; iu- 57,

82, 97, 105, 106.
Ordenhill, i. 242.
Ordequhill, i. 74, 78; description of

the parish, i. 87.
Ordies, i. 86.
Ordifish, i. 241.
Ordnies, i. 75,
Ore water, i. 299, 301, 302 ; ii. 53-60,

71,72,108, 115, 122, 130,403.
Ore, Alexander, of Knockandie, i. 224.
Orinsa, ii. 192.
Orkney, i. 141 ; ". 3i3, 3Si, 35^* 359,

412, 421, 423, 441, 510; "i- 3cxiv;

description of, by Ben,iii. vii-xiii, xvii,

302 ; description of,by Mackaile, iii.

I ; poetical description of, iii. xii.
Patrick, earl of, i. 143, 1489

149-

Robert, earl of, i. 148.

Ormistop, ii. 617; iii. 112, 114, 117.

Ormley, i. 172.

Ormond castle, ii. 415, 554*

earl of, L 384.

Ormondy hill, i. 208.
Orok, iii. 17.
Oronsay, iii. 275, 288.
Orphir, i. 142 ; iii. 309.

GENERAL INDEX

411

Orr, John, minister of Boihwell, i.

416.
Or ran river, i. 210.
Orrea, Fife, ii. 404.
Ortoun, ii. 433.
Orum, David, minister of Forgandenny,

i. 126.
Orwell, i. 118.
Oslahill, iii. 162.
Ospidal, i. 200 ; ii. 420, 441 ; iii.

105.
Ostaipbeg, ii. 583.
Ostaipmoir, ii. 583.
Oswald of Fingletoun, ii. 208.

James, minister of Wattin, i. 180.

Othloc, i. 272, 275, 285.

Otterston, i. 292, 294.

Ouchter. See Auchter.

Ouersay, iii. 274.

Ouig, ii. 584.

Ounst island, iii. 61, 63.

Oursa, ii. 191.

Outer Huntlie, iii. 167.

Outer Ugie water, ii. 256.

Outlat, i. 234, 325.

Over Achinreath, i. 242.

Over Bar, i. 396, 398.

OverCramond, iii. 116.

Over Cranston, ii. 619; iii. 121.

Over Fornocht, ii. 572.

Over-Glen, iii. 56.

Over Glenyla, ii. 35, 36.

Over Gogar, iii. 117.

Over Govan, iii. 134.

Overhall, i. 4, 6, 16.

Over Hartside, iii. 174.

Overhill, iii. 54, 56.

Over Killiewhannedie, i. 396.

Over Kinmundy, i. 45.

Over Liber ton, ii. 618; iii. 120.

Over Lochenburn, iii. 56.

Over Loch of the Lowes, iii. 138.

Over Mains, iii. 178.

Over Pollock, iii. 127.

OverTarie, i. 275; ii. 611.

Over Wall wood, ii. 588.

Over Whitfeild, iii. 146.

Owa Moir, ii. 612.

Owy, ii. 574, 576, 602, 604.

Oxellum, ii. 355.

Oxendean, iii. 181.

Oxenham, iii. 136, 159.

Oxmoor, iii. 177.

Oyne, i. 3, 4. 6, 17, 94-

Oysserfaill, ii. 184, 533.

Pabay, ii. 213 ; iii. 283, 286, 299.
Paddockhall, i. 30c.

' Painstoun, i. 373.

' Paisley, ii. 202, 210, 606; iii. 126,
213.

, abbey, ii. 202-205, 209 ; iii.

216.

Paistoun burn, iii. iii.

Palgown, i. 401 ; ii. no.

Palladius chapel, i. 267.

Pallion river, i. 238.

Palm fair, ii. 73.
' Palmer, captain, iii. 199.

Palmure, ii. 67, 1 11, 112.

Panbryd, ii. 22, 44, 48 ; iii. 231.
I Pandrich, i. 312.

Pan Haven, iii. 219, 221.

Panmeadow bridge, i. 324.

Panmure, ii. 22, 34, 48, 49.

Patrick, earl of, ii. 48, 51.

earle of, ii. 27, 32-38, 40, 45, 47-

50 ; iii. 245.

Pannanich wood, ii. 242, 260.

Pansa, iii. 11.

Panthere, David de, bishop of Ross,
iii. 259.

Pantons of Hilton, i. 85.

Papa illand, ii. 177, 184, 529, 532.

Papa Stronsay, iii. 304.

Westray, iii. xxiv, 305.

Papdale, iii. 308.

Paplay, iii. 308.

Parbrock coal pit> iii. 198.

Parconnen, i. 276.

ParfT, i. 194.

Park, Aberdeenshire, ii. 234.

Banff, i. 87.

I Perthshire, ii. 613.

I Berwickshire, iii. 175.

I Wigtonshire, ii. 90 ; iii. 129.

I of Doun, ii. 612.

of Drumwhassill, i. 348.

of Kelly, ii. 238.

of I he Mains of Lauder, iii.

i 175.

I of Shaih, i. 19.

of Tarbra, ii. 27.

Parkburn, i. 314 ; iii. 133, 201, 202.

Park-Caddel castle, ii. 432.

Parkconnone, ii. 45.
, Parkend, i. 321-323.
I Parkhall, i. 316.

Parkhead, i. 422 ; iii. 168.

George, iii. 38.

' Parkhill, i. 85 ; ii. 580.
1 Parkmill, i. 309.

Parkock, i. 64.
i Parliamentary barons, ii. 435.
' Parne, iii. loo.

' Parsons house, Girvan, ii. 7, 13.
I Partick, ii. 193, 579, 587.

412

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Parton, i. 395, 397 ; ii. 55, 60, 61, 63,
68, 71, 108, 130.

laird of, ii. 60.

Parwe, ii. 438, 442.

Patalpe or Pasalpine, ii. 34.

Paterson of Caverhill, iii. 150.

Pathhead, i. 300 ; iii. 184.

Patig, ii. 599.

Pa ton, David, minister of Kettins, i.
281.

James, minister of Kettins, son of

preceding, i. 281.

Patrickholm, iii. 134.

Patrick's mass fair, i. 399.

Paxton, iii. 182.

Pean river, ii. 519.

Pearls in Galloway, iii. 51 ; in Ren-
frewshire, 212 ; in Shetland, 252.

Peart. See Pert.

Peats, ii. 100, 138, 422.

Peebles, i. 363 ; ii. 586, 606, 607 ;
parishes, iii. 154; presbytery, 141.

Peell, ii. 37 ; iii. 164.

PefTer water, i. 374 ; iii. III.

— — Mills, iii. 119.

Peiduly bridge, i. 37.

Peinville, ii. 582.

Peinyirie, iii. 204.

Peirsone of Lochlands, ii. 50.

of Sunddie, ii. 47.

Archibald, ii. 33.

Pernio castle, iii. 130.

Pencaitland, i. 376.

Pendreich, i. 136; ii. 613.

Penewharry, ii. 585.

Penicuik, ii. 617, 622.

house, iii. 119,

Dr. Alexander, of Romanno, iii.

147.
Penig, ii. 431.
Penlaw, i. 368.
Penmouthsheelbank, iii. 184.
Penmoutsheill, iii. 183.
Pennan i. 41 ; ii. 136, 236.

Craigs, iii. 227.

Penninghame, i. 400 ; ii. 69, 72, 75,

77. 78, 87, 88, 98-101, no, 112, 123,

iii. 128.
Pennyglen field, ii. 5.
Pennyland, i. 172.
Pennystone, ii. 67.
Penpont, i. 397 ; ii. 55, 61, 127 ; iii.

xxiii ; description of, iii. 198.
Pentland, ii. 618.
Pentland frith, i. 151-153; ii. 351,

422.
hills, ii. 615, 617, 618, 622 ; iii.

120, 123.
Penveltun, ii. 314.

Perk, i. 367.

Pert or Peart, i. 262, 272, 274 ; ii. 37,

41 ; iii. 247.
Persy, ii. 37.
Perth, ii. 22, 23. 34, 192, 358, 538,

594, 595. . „
earl of, 1. 128, 129, 133, 138, 139,

336 ; ii. 28.
Pctacheiring, ii. 574.
Petaurie, ii. 574.
Peterculter, i. 99, 107, 262, 429.
Peter-Eug}-, iii. xxiii, 228.
Peterhead, i. 39, 41, 45, 65, 69, 297 ;

ii. 237, 257, 509 ; iii. xxiii, 226, 227 ;

description of, i. 70 ; iii. 228.
Petermass fair, i. 170.
Petersen, Abraham, iii. 33.
Thomas, minister of Stronza, i.

146.
Peth of Strowiehill, i. 125.
Petinbroge, i. 1 16.
Petlurg, I. 45, 63, 81 ; ii, 233.
Petraig, ii. 600.
Petrie, Alex', i. 234.
Petty, i. 280 ; ii. 431, 555-558-
Petulie, i. 41, 47, 50, 51 ; ii. 236.
Phalie, i. 225.

Pharay, ii. 177; iii. 10, 305, 311,
Pharohead, i. 192 ; ii. 352, 421, 427,

561 ; iii. 100, 108.
Phesdo, i. 268, 270.
Philip, iii. 168.

Philiphaugh, i. 359 ; iii. 139, 163, 165.
Philorth, I. 40, 47, 53, 55, 61 ; ii. 236.
Philp, James, of Almryclose, ii. 46.
Phinnaven, laird of, ii. 37.
Photerty, i. 209.
Phuarran Pooledai, iii. 10 1.
Physgill, ii. 85; iii. 129.
Pictish remains, i. 29, 173, 185, 296,

305» 317 ; ". 5 ; "i- 85, 198, 252.
Pigmeis isle, iii. 292.
Piked stone, iii. 151.
Pilliwanton well, i. 323.
Pilmer, Peter, minister of Foigan-

denny, i. 126.
Pilmoor, iii. 114, 175.
Pilrig, ii. 617, 618; iii. 119.
Pilton, ii. 617; iii. 118.
Pinkie, ii. 617 ; iii. 118.
Pinkill, ii. 13, 20, 70, no, 585.
Pinwhirrie castle, ii. 14.
Pitcairn, i. 138.
Pitcaple, i. 6, 7, 17, 18.
Pitcarlie, i. 305.
Pitchorrell, li. 550.
Pilcurr, i. 280 ; ii. 35.

laird of, ii. 22, 50.

I Pitdivie, i, 273.

GENERAL INDEX

413

Pitfichie, i. 95, 96.

Pitfirren, i. 287, 290, 292, 294.

Pitfoddels, i. 107, 256.

laird of. See Sf enzies.

Pitforthie, ii. 40.

Pitfour, i. 45, 63, 64 ; ii. 554-

laird of. See Ferguson, James.

Pitgarvie, i. 269.

Pit Gawin, ii. 574.

Pitkelliny, i. 138.

Pitkerro, ii. 31, 33 ; iii. 245.

Pitliver, i. 287, 290-294.

Pitlour, laird of, iii. 14.

Pitlundie, i. 206 ; ii. 554.

Pitmaen, ii. 574.

Pitmedden, i. gS, 116 ; ii. 238.

Pitmowes, i. 276 ; ii. 47.

Pitmuny, i. 96.

Pitravy, i. 287, 291, 293.

Pitrichie, i. 98, 272.

Picscandlie, i. 276 ; ii. 28.

Pitscottie, ii. 571.

Pitsgarrie, Easter, i. 262, 263.

Pitskellie, ii. 49.

Pitsligo, i. 41, 47, 48, S3 ; iii- 227 ;

description of, by Cook, i. 50.
castle, ii. 236.

lord, i. 41 ; ii. 143 ; iii. 226, 227.

Pitterrow, i. 263, 267, 268, 270.
Pittasteach, i. 22.

Pittelachie, i. 23.

PittencriefT, i. 287, 291, 293.

Pittendreich, ii. 433 ; iii. 222.

Pittendrum, i. 52.

Pittenweem, ii. 405 ; iii. 218.

Pittilloch, i. 300.

Pittilloe of Kinnochtrie, i. 280.

Pittinteack, i. 31.

Pictodrie, i. 1,6, 7, 8, 12, 18, 95.

Pittoworny, ii. 535.

Place-names, L xxiv ; ii. Ivii ; iii. xxiii.

Scottish place-names Latinised,

ii. X.

Plandergaist, iii. 183.

Plattone, i. 285 ; ii. 30.

Plean, i. 315.

Plenderleith, iii. 158.

Plewghie, i. 314.

Plewlands, ii. 618 ; iii. 119, 147.

castle, iii. 130.

Plora, i. 360 ; iii. 164.

Plotcok, ii. 554.

Ploughing in Galloway, ii. 100, loi.

Ploy Saturday, i. 102.

Plunton-Lennox castle, ii. 65.

Pluscarden monastery, ii. 307, 430,

433» 575 ; "J- 131-
Pocknave miln, i. 327.
Podine, i. 367.

I Poirt, ii. 554, 598.

I Poirt of Inch Mahume, ii. 610.

I Pokelly, ii, 590.

Polchapel, ii. 12.

Polchorrie, iii. 100.

Polder, i. 340 ; ii. 610.

Polinturf, or West Water, iiL 146.

Polkill bridge, i. 404.

water, i. 400, 402, 403.

PoUdun, ii. 584.

Pollintorff, iii. 154.

Pollochack, L 228 ; iL 608.

Pollock, ii. 201, 2oi8 ; iii. 126.

sir Robert, of that ilk, ii. 208.

Thomas, ii. 208.

PoUockshaws, ii. 201.

Polmadie, iii. 126.

Polmais, i. 315.

Polneur water, i. 400, 403, 404, 407.

Polnie, i. 405.

Polrossie castle. See Pulrossie.

Polskeoch, ii. 61.

Poltaiffe, iiL 276.

Poltantoun, iii. 128.

river, ii. 89, 90, 94, 95, 107, 114.

Polton, ii. 81, 116; iii. 119.

Pol wart, iii. 173, 180, 184.

Pomona, iii. xxiv, 307.

Pont, Timothy, ii. v, xii, xx, xxiv, iii,
23°! 253, 595 ; iii. xiii ; notes on
Adrian^s wall, ii. 368 ; papers on
Ross, ii. 538 ; notes from his papers,
ii. 582.

Pool-dowbraik, ii. 599.

Pool-na-chaillach, or Carlings pooll,

ii- 595.
Poolnahalla, ii. 584.
Poolwalls, i. 7, i8.
Pooly bum, i. 104.
Porer, ii. 609.

Pork |;enerally despised, ii. 425.
Port, !• 335-339, 348.
Portchamill, i. 192.
Portchre^an, ii. 145, 51 1,
Porten, ii. 602.
Portenkirk, i. 395.
Porteous of Glenicirk, iii. 152.

of Hawkshaw, iii. 153.

Porter-Croft, iii. 237.

Porterfield, Alex., of Fulwood, ii*

208.
—^ John, of that ilk, ii. 207, 208.
Port Glasgow, ii. 204, 210; iii. 214.
Portinellen, ii. 613.
Portlethen, i. 108.
Port Leviathan, iii. 236.
Portmaculter a/ias Mikle Ferry, See

Port ne couter.
Portmahomack, i. 215.

414

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIOxSS

Portman, ii. 189.

Port Moloch priory, ii. 405.

Port Montgomerie, iii. 128, J29.

Port nc Couter, i. 200; ii. 417, 437-439 ;

»"• 57. 97. 100, loi, 106, 107.
Portnestock, ii. 97, 115.
Portover, i. 193.
Port Patrick, i. 409 ; ii. 74, 90-9S. 9*.

114, 116, 127, 605, 606; iii. 96.

minister of, ii. 85, 95, 122.

Portree (Port Ry), ii. 221, 582.
Port Skerry, i. 187 ; ii. 561.
Portsonaghan, ii. 147, 512.
Portsoy. 1. 48, 73, 74.
Porttrail (Powtrail) water, iii. 132.
Port Ylen Moloch, ii. 566.
Posso, iii. 150.

Posthoase, iii. 184.
Pot loch, iii. 140.
Pot hum, iii. 166.
Potee, i. 118.
Potento, i. no.
Potholm, i. 388.
Pot of Pool d'Oylie, i. 23.
Pottaig water, ii. 599, 600.
Potterrow Port, ii. 626.
Pourie, ii. 22, 32.

— laird of, ii. 33, 50.
Poutachie, i. 6.

Pow, i. 320.

of ErroU, i. 305.

of Inchaflfrie, i. 140.

-— of Lindores, i. 304, 305.

Powbeat, iii. 141.

Powbridge, i. 327, .^34, 41a

Powcorse burn, iii. 134.

Powes, i. 275.

Powfowls, i. 328.

Powhouse, i. 136, 315.

Powilchrow, ii. 537.

Powknave, i. 333.

Powmood (Polnood), iii. 153. .

Pownoon (Polnoon), iii. 127.

Powsayl, iii. 153, 154.

Poynt of Paincors, ii. 591.

Premnay, i. 3, 4. I5> i^-

Pressmennan, iii. 112.

Press waddie, i. 181.

Preston, ii. 130 ; iii. in, 114, 173, 182.

-9— sir George, i. 292.

Preston -grange, iii. 114.

Prestonhaugh, i. 375.

Prestonpans, i. 375.

Prestwick, i. 410.

Pretschill, iii. 151.

Priestfield, ii. 618; iii. 119.

Primrose, Charles, minister of Belly, i.

240.
Pringle of Buckholm, iii. 162.

Pringle of Clifton, iii. 162.

of Grecnknow, iii. 176.

I of Haining, i. 355.

of Stitchell, iii. 162.

of Torwoodlie, i. 362.

of Whitebank, iii. 14a

of Yair, i. 361.

sir Robert, of Stitchell, iii. 177.

I Privick, i. 411 ; ii. 209.

Pronie, i. 24,

Pronsie, iii. 105.

I castle, ii. 420, 441.

I Prossin water, ii. 593, 594.

Provin, iii. 134, 135.

Pruntoch, Thomas, minister of Wick, i.
161.

Pubblefem, ii. 564.

Pulgormak, ii. 554.

Pulocheg, ii. 558.

Palrossie, i. 200 ; ii. 420, 441 , 545 ; iii.

I 105-

I Pumpherstone, iii. 115, 116.

j Purves, sir Wm.,of Herdrige, iii. 178.

Purveshall, iii. 178, 184.
I Puttachie, i. 21.
' Pyper, Alex., of E. Braickie, iii. 247.

, QuAiR (Quir) Water, ii. 179, 529 ;

iii. 145, 155, 163.
I QuarfTdale, iii. 249.
I Quarlton, ii. 209.

Quarrel, i. 325, 327. 330. 333.
I Quarreyhill, i. 285.

Quarrywood, ii. 433.
' Quarter, iii. 152.

Quathquanne Law, iii. 135.
; Queech castle, i. 112 ; iii. 222.

Queen Blear-eyes cross, iii. 216.
I Queensberry, duke of, iii. 196, 200, 203,
205, 207.

marquess of, ii. 54^56.

1 hill, iii. 208.

i Queen's chair, iii. 153.
I Queen's ferry, i. 288.
I Queenshaugh, i. 315.

Queen's links, Aberdeen, ii. 483.

Queen's loch, ii. 209.

Queen's Manore, ii. 25.

Queybanks, i. 151.

Quheill Causey, iii. 136.
I Quhite. Sfe While.
I Quich, i. 285, 286.

Quinagg hill, ii. 601.

QuUow-eeran, ii. 563.
I Quoigs, i. 313 ; ii. 608.

I

' Raasay, ii. 221, 532; iii. 283.

I Rachan, iii. 152.

GENERAL INDEX

415

Rachielaw loch, iii. 140.

Rachlaine, iii. 265.

Rad-na-pheny, ii. 598.

Rae of Tannochside, i. 418.

Raeg.Beg, ii. 558.

Raeg-Moir, ii. 558.

Rafien, i. 88.

Raffuird, i. 238.

Ragged -gill heichts, iii. 132, 135.

Rahalrig, ii. 609.

Rain. See Rayne.

Rait of Findlayston, i. 253.

of Hallgreen, ii. 45, 47 ; iii. 240.

of Pitforthie, ii. 40.

Alexander, his description of the

parishes of Clackmannan, TuIIiallan

and Alloa, i. 306.

James, minister of KinnefF, i. 258.

William, of Redcloak, iii. 237.

minister in Dundie, ii. 32.

in Innerkillor, ii. 45.

in Kingoldrum, ii. 37.

in Monikie, ii. 32.

Raith, i. 422.
Raithen. See Rathen.
Raiticre, ii. 574.
Raitmeannach, ii. 574.
Raitocre, ii. 574.
Ralburghlaw, iii. 137.
Ralstoun, ii. 202.
Ramescleuch, iii. 166.
Ramforlie. See Ranfurly.
Rammerskeels, i. 368.
Ramoir, i. 428.
Ramridge, i. 379; iii. 178.
Ramsay of Balmein, iii. 24a

of Banff, iii. 222.

. of Caimetoune, ii. 45.

of Eidingtoun, iii. 182.

of Parkconnone, ii. 45.

J<^^°» ^^s description of the parish

of Tannadice, L 284.

of Ochtertyre, i. 339.

minister of Markinch, i. 301.

Randalls trenches, iii. 149.
Randolph, Thomas, earl of Moray, ii.

308, 434, 435.

sir Thomas, iii. 208.

^nes of Noth, i. 33.

Ranfield, ii. 203.

Ranfurly, ii. 207 ; iii. 127.

Rangage loch, i. 169.

Ranich island, i. 198.

Raniston, i. 97, 427.

Ranken, Mr., catechist in Dundie, ii. 32.

Rankillar, i. 303, 304.

Rankleburn, iii. 138, 166.

^nlagallan, iii. 281.

Rannagullan, i. iii, 113.

Rannoch (Rennoch), ii. 518, 563, 570,

576, 593 » 596 ; notes on, by Pont, ii.

595.
Rannochbrae, ii. 596.
Kaploch Moss, i. 406 ; iii. 134.
Rashie forrat, i. 313.
Rashiehill, ii. 616; iii. 117.
Ratearn, i. 313 ; ii. 608.
Rathen, i. xxiv, 40, 44, 47, 48, 52, 53,

57, 68 ; ii. 137 ; iii. 227 ; description

oif, by Aucharies, i. 54.
Ratho, ii. 616, 622 ; iii. 117.

Byres, ii. 616; iii. 117.

Rathven, i. 72, 239, 241.

Rats unable to live in Sutherland, iii.

Rattray, 1. 39, 40, 71, ni; iL ^^,

236.

water, i. 67, 68.

of Rattray (Ratro), iii. 222.

^John, i. 115.

Rattray head, i. 71.
Ravelrig, ii. 617; iii. 118.
Ravensbay, ii. 49.
Ravensheuch castle, ii. 406.
Ravenstoun castle, iii. 129.

loch, iii. 129.

Ravinstone or Remeston, ii. 85, 86.

Raw. See Wrae.

Raws of Huntly, i. 80, 86.

Rayne (Rain) parish, i. 4, 5, 10, 16, 17,

82, 83, 93 ; ii. 266.
Reading, i. 321.
Readykes, iii. 237.
Re^Uavie, ii. 174.
Reamore, i. 259.
Reatie, i. 75.
Reawagen, iii. 97.
Reay, i. 151, 169, 170, 173, 181.

burn, i. 183.

lord, i. 190, 193, 200; il 420,

426, 438.
Red burn, i. 318, 321.
Redbumfoot, i. 383.
Redcastle, i. 205 ; ii. 23, 44.
Redclock, i. 251, 254; iii. 237.
Reddinburn, iii. 156.
Redding, iii. 136.
Reddochs, i. 320.
kedfoord, i. 140, 263.
Redfordgreen, iii. 166.
Redhall, i. 315; ii. 617; iii. 118, 183.
Redhaven, i. 73.
Redheuch, iii. 183, 184.
Redhewes, ii. 616.
Redhouse, i. 375; »"• II4-
Redkirk, i. 381-384.
Red Moss, i. 96.
Rednoch burn, ii. 610.

416

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Rednoch tower, i. 340.

Redpath, iii 171, 175.

Redswyre, iii. 136, 137.

Red waimbs, iii. xxv, 165.

Reedmvre, L 268.

Reezoche water, iii. 134.

Regalia of Scotland in KinnefT, i. 258.

Regulus market, ii. 266.

Reid of Cowie, i. 255, 256.

sir Alex., of Barra, i. 9.

Alexander, physician of Aberdeen,

ii. 477.
James, minister of N. Leith, i.

146.

"!• 33.

Math., minister of Staplegordon,

i. 392.
Robert, bishop of Orkney, 1. 145,

147, 148.

Thomas, of Aberdeen, ii. 473.

Reidboug, i. 59.

Reidcastle. See Redcastle.

Reidkirk. See Redkirk.

Reisse, water of, i. 161.

Reissebay, i. 157, 159, 161.

Rendal, iii. 310.

Renfeild, i. 424.

Renfrew, ii. 195, 196, 203, 210, 356.

605, 606.
description of the sheriffdom, ii.

201 ; iii. 125.
Rennach. See Rannoch.
Rennetside Heads, iii. 178.
Rentoun, iii. 183.

Repentance tower, i. 370 ; iii. 188.
Reray, water of, ii. 145, 511.
Rerceby hall, i. 369.
Rerick (Monktoun), ii. 58-60, 68, 71,

115, 122, 131, 132.
Reringe, iii. 278.
Rescobie, i. 272, 274, 276, 302 ; ii. 21,

25, 28 ; iii. 244.
Reshert, ii. 538.
Restalrig, ii. 618; iii. 119.
Restennet loch, i. 276.

priory, i. 271, 272 ; ii. 28.

Revel church, cross in, iii. 255.

Rew, laird of, ii. 150.

William, minister of Forgandenny,

i. 126.
Rewlie, iii. 178.
Rha water, ii. 597.
Rheanauchan, i. 185.
Rhinns of Galloway, ii. i, 100.

of Ilia, ii. 188-191.

Rhone, ii. 60-63, 108.

Rhum illand. See Rum.

Rhynd, i. 297 ; Taylor's description of,

i. 126.

Rhynie, i. 2, 3, 13-15, 32-35.
Rianleadan, i. 191.
Riannyan, i. 191.
Ribigill or Rubigill, i. 190.
Riccartoun (Rickartoun), L 254, 413;

ii. 589, 613; iii. 118.
Rickart of Amage, i. 43.

David, of Amage, i. 254.

Ri-crois, iL 420, 440.
Rid Came, ii. 576.
Riddill, iii. 137.
Riddle of that ilk, iii. 162.

W., of Minto, iii. 162.

Ridge, i. 123; iii. 175.

Ridpath, George, minister of Ladykirk,

i. 380.
Rigg Moor, i. 384.
Rihealbhag, i. 188.
Rihung, i. 190.
Riloise, i. 188.
Rimhichy, i. 196.
Rinaeg water, ii. 544.
Rinaeg Beg, ii. 543.
Rinaegmoir, ii. 543.
Rinastrone, ii. 568.
Rind. See Rhynd.
Rindrought, i. 60.
Rindstock, i. 22.
Rink, iii. 164.
Rinnes bum, ii. 231.
RipaAlta, ii. 359.
Riphail, i. 188.
Rippachie, i. 24.
Riroy, i. 198.
Riselaw, iii. 180.
Risgil, i. 163, 166.
Risk, i. 332.
Rivers, distances and lengths of, ii.

592- ^ .. ^
Rivowchan, u. 548.
Roan island, i. 190.
Robert the Bruce, i. 405.
Robert hill, i. 368.

moor, iii. 30.

Robertland, ii. 590.

Robcrtoun, i. 356, 363 ; ii. 66 ; iii. 168.

bum, iii. 132.

Robertson of Bruntoun, i. 301.

Alex., chaplain to Pitsligo, iii*

228.

James, LL,D., ii. 473.

-Joseph, his description of the

parish of Strathdon, i. 37.

Thomas, i. 115.

William, description of the

Garioch, i. I ; description of Kincar-

din-Oneil, etc.,ioi.
Mr., minister in Ouchterhoos, ii*

33-

GENERAL INDEX

417

Robuster, ii. 421.

Roch island, ii. 213.

Roche hill, ii. 368 ; iii. 125.

Rockell, John de, iii. 200.

Rockfoord, i. 380.

Rockhall, i. 370.

Roeburn, iii. 181.

Roecleach, iii. 179.

Rogart, i. 200 ; ii. 437 ; iii. 98, 104,

106.
RoUo, lord, of Duncrub, i. 112, 119-

122, 137.
Roman camp at Ardoch, i. 131 ; and

near Inerpafry, 132 ; at Birans, 372 ;

at Lyne, liL 149 ; Teviotdale, 159.

remains, i. 252, 322, 336, 403, 404.

road, i. 385, 387.

walls, ii. xxxviii ; notes on, 336,

368; iii. 215,239.
Romanno, iii. 142, 147.

of that ilk, iii. 147.

Rona, ii. 532 ; iii. 28.

Ronay island, ii. 212 ; iii. 284, 300.

Ronin, iii. 280.

Rood fair, i. 105, 400.

Roodill, iii. 299.

Rood Moss, i. 100.

Rora, laird of, 514.

Rorie island, ii. 539.

Rorow, ii. 562.

Rosai|;, ii. 543.

Rosane, i. 90.

Rosdoe, i. 354; ii. 198, 199.

Rose of Clava, i. 225.

of Kilravok, i. 22$ ; ii. 432 ; iii. 130.

Hugh, of Kilraick, i. 224.

Patrick, i. 236.

Rosehall, i. 418.

Rosehartie, i. 41, 47, 50, 52; ii. 135,

143 ; iii. 226.
Rosehaugh, i. 232.
Rosehill, i. 85.
Rosemarkie, ii. 415, 554.
Rosiebum, i. 77.
Roskeen, i. 212.

Roslin, ii. 209, 617-622; iii. 119, 122.
Rosneath, ii. 193, 194, 199, 200, 537,

593» 607.
Ross, ii. 311, 312, 359.360,413-418,

422, 433 ; Timothy Font's papers

on, 538; description of, 413.

island of, i. 235 ; ii. 109, 128, 129.

Berwickshire, iii. 183.

lady, ii. 201.

of Balnagown, ii. 416.

of Haukhead, ii. 202.

Alexander, earl of, iii. 260.

poet, ii. 473-

of Aberdeen, ii. 477.

VOL. III.

Ross, Andrew, minister of Tarbat, i. 217.

David, minister of Tarbat, i. 217.

Donald, earl of, iii. 260.

Hugh, minister of Creich, i. 203.

sir John, ii. 202.

John, son of Balnagoun, i. 202.

minister of Lathron, i. 169.

Malcolm, of Pitcalnie, i. 215.

Robert, of Wark, ii. 202.

minister of Alness, i. 213.

Thomas, minister of Alness, i. 213.

Walter, minister of Creich, i, 203.

minister of Alness, i. 213.

Wm., lord, ii. 202.

minister of Tarbat, i. 214.

Rossall or Rosso], i. 188 ; ii. 433, 548,

601.
Rossbum, i. 244.
Rossevin, iii. 134, 135.
Rossie, i. 273, 296, 297 ; ii. 43.
Rossland, i. 425.
Rosvth castle, i. 293, 294.
Rotnes, earl of, ii. 231, 254, 406, 433.

castle, ii. 433.

Rothiemay, i. 75, 78, 89; ii. 231, 233,

254, 255.
Rothiemurcus, ii. 578, 595 ; iii. 24a
Rothney, i. 4.

Rotten Calder water, iii. 134.
Rough water, i. 336.
Roughfald Slap, i. 125.
Rovidil, ii. 181, 531.
Row, ii. 193.
Rowallen, ii. 589.
Rowan (Rowyn), ii. 557, 558.
Rowantree, i. 324 ; ii. no; iii. 127.
Rowantreebumhead, ii. 368 ; iii. 125.
Row-Ardenan ferry, i. 346.
Row-chassil, ii. 536, 603.
Rowchester (Routchester), iii. 179.
Rowendownen, ii. 583.
Rowestoun, iii. 179.
Rowglash, ii. 602, 604.
Rowhoumish, ii. 584.
Rowiskich burn, ii. 610, 611.
Rowisnach, ii. 536.
Rowna-harrach, ii. 603.
Row na Re (Row na Ra), ii. 538,

544.

Row Newyr, ii. 603.

Rowsay, iii. xxiv, 306.

Row-Stoir, i. 26; ii. 414, 545, 600.

Roxburgh, descriptions of, by Scot of
Harden ; iii. 135 information con-
cerning the shire, 156.

earl of, ii. 125, 127 ; iii. 161.

castle, iii. 137, 156, I57, 172.

Roy alias Frazer, Andrew, minister of
Boleskin, i. 218.

2d

418

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Roy loch, ii. 572.

river, ii. 519.575-

Ru-an-tumpain, i. 197.

Ruardreissich, i. 188.

Ruberlawhill, iii. 56.

Ruchlaw, iii. 1 14.

Ruck, i. 79.

Ruffen. See Ruthven.

Ruglan burn, iii. 134.

Runorisdaile, i. 188.

Rule, John, prior of Petinweem, iii.

218.

hospital, iii. 158.

water, iiL 136.

Rully, i. 332,

Rum, ii. 176, 177. 528. 529, 583-

Rumbisdaill water, ii. 582.

Rumbling Bridge, i. 308.

Rumeltoun, iii. 177.

Rumeltounlaw, iii. 177.

Runacabaigh, ii. 533.

Runacraoibh, i. 187.

Runahiolair, i. 187.

Runamoin, i. 187.

Runstonfoot, i. 366.

Rusco, laird of, ii. 67.

Ruskick, ii. 562.

Ruspin, i. 192.

Russel, James, of Kingseat, iii. I46.

Rutherfoord of Ed^erton, iii. 162.

of Faimielie, i. 361.

of Faimiton, iii. 162.

of that ilk, iii. 162.

Rutherfords of Aberdeen, ii. 474.

Rutherglen, iii. 217.

Ruthven (Ruffen), ii. 35, 36, 594 ; iii.

246 ; in Badenoch, ii. 595, 598.

castle, ii. 174, 57^, 577-

laird of, ii. 50.

lord, i. 124.

of Maynes, ii. 47.

Isobell, i. 125.

alias Johnstone, col. James, i.

381.
Ruthvens, 1. 109, no, 112.
Ruthwall, i. 370; iii. 187, 189.
Ruven, ii. 6cS.
Ruybaid, ii. 599.
Ruyendown, ii. 553.
Ruyrich, ii. 573.
Ruysoles, ii. 554«
Ruywowdin, ii. 573.
Ry river, ii. 591.
Ryknow, ii. 599.
R)mavy, i. 188.
Rynoldbum, iii. 162.
Ryssa, iii. 313.

Saavetin isle, ii. 583.

Saddle-Loup, ii. in.

Saidill, ii. 186, 188, 527.

St. Alexander's well, i. 332.

St. Andrews, Fife, ii. 357, 403-405.

Orkney, i. 142 ; iii. 308.

fair, Golspie, ii. 44a

St. Anne's chai)ely ii. 483.
St. Barr's fair, ii. 420, 440.
St. Bernard's fair, ii. 420, 440.
St. Bothans, iii. 173.
St. Brides chappell, i. 336.
St. Catherine's chapel, ii. 621.

hill, Aberdeen, ii. 481.

St. Clair, Oliver, i. 371.

professor of mathematics at Paris,

iii. 259.
St. Clement's tour, ii. 531.
St. Colmes (Inchcolm) chappell, ii.

405.
St. Columb's chape], ii. 153, 516.

isle, ii. 161 ; iii. 293.

St. Conall's well, iii. 197.
St. Cuthljerl's kirk, iii. 183.
St. Dudoch's kirk, i. i6a
St. Dunstan's fair, iii. 226.

well, i. 49.

St. Ebba's Head, iii. 183.
St. Erchan's well, i. 102.
Si. Ernan*s church, i. 287.

Seat, i. 286.

St Ethemen, i. 57.

St. Fergus, i. 39, 41, 45, 46, 67, 69,

70 ; iii. 227 ; Keith's description of

the parish of, i. 66.
St. Fiacres bay, iii. 232.
St. Flannan, ii. 211.
St. Germains, i. 375 ; iii. 114.
St. Gilbert's &ir, ii. 420, 44a
St. Giles cathedral, Edinburgh, i. 143.
St. Helens kirk, iii. 183.

well, ii. 4.

St. Johns clachan, ii. 61, 607.

St. Johnstoun. See Perth.

St. Kebets kirk, ii. 587.

St. Kenia market, i. i8x.

St. Lacus parish, i. 427,

St. Laurence parish, i. 266, 317-323.

St. Lawrence fiair, ii. 65.

St. Leonards, iii. 175.

St. Machar parish, i. 84 ; ii. 486.

St. Magnus cathedral, i. X43.

harbour, iii. 60.

haven, i. 49.

hospital, iii. 86.

St. Mallo island, i. 343.

St. Margaret's fair, ii. 420, 44a

St. Martin's chappell, i. 160.

fair, ii. 266.

St. Mary's isle, ii. 57, 115, 132.

GENERAL INDEX

419

St. Mary's loch, i. 360; iii. 141, 144, 164.

nutt, ii. 214.

kirk of the Lochs, iii. 165.

St. Mirren chappell, i. 345.

St. Molloch*8 fair, i. 14.

St. Monans, ii. 405.

St. Mungo kirk, i. 143, 369.

St. Murray fEurm, ii. 5.

St. Ninians, i. 314, 327, 339, 350, 351.

cave, ii. 86.

chappel, i. 160; ii. 172.

well, ii. 187.

St. Olafs church, ii. 265.

St. Olla parish, i. 141, 142, 145-147 ;

iii. 308.
St. Owen's hill, i. 56.

well, i. 56.

St. Peter's kirk, i. 88.

parish, i. 79.

St. Quivox, i. 409, 41a

St. K^ulus's &ir, i. 16.

St. Ronan, ii. 212.

St. Ruth's church, iii. 187.

St. Serfs fair, i. 16 ; ii. 266.

St. Siras Hope, iii. 236.

St. Taman's well, i. 108.

St. Tear's chappel, i. 159.

St. Vigeans parish, i. 275 ; ii. 44, 45 ;

iii. 247.
St. Walach parish, i. 79.
Saline, i. 290, 307.
Salisbury, earl of, iii. 47, 48.
hills of, Edinburgh, ii. 622, 624 ;

iii. 123.
Saliskerr island, ii. 212.
Salmbrae, iii. 134.
Salmon fishing, i. 201, 202, 212, 221,

242, 326, 354.
Salsyde or Soul Seat abbacy, ii. 90,

91, 122; iii. 128.

loch, iii. 129.

Salt, manufacture of, iii. 189.
Saltcoats, i. 321, 374, 378; ii. 591;

iii. 114, 229.
Salthouse Head, iii. 229.
Salton, i. 375; iii. 114.

barons of, ii. 231, 233. 253, 255.

lord, of Philorth, i. 40, 61, 68,

87 ; iii. 226, 227.
Salt Pow, i. 324.
Salt Prestoun, iii. ill.
Saltside. See Salsyde.
Sanday, iii. xxiv, 303, 314.
Sand-eels, iii. loi.
Sandend, i. 73.

Sanderay, ii. 177, 529; iii. 286.
Sanders, Wm., minister of Belly, i.

240.
Sanderson of Castle Sanderson, ii. 194.

Sandhaven, i. 52.

Sandies bum, iii. 133.

Sandilands, Patrick, sub -principal of

Aberdeen university, ii. 488.
Sandness, ii. 482.
Sands, i. 308.
Sandside, i. 181, 182.
Sandsidehead, iii. 82, 84.
Sandwait, ii. 560.
Sandwick, iii. 309.
Sandwood, i. 196, 198.
Sandy foord, i. 423.
Sanfoord, ii. 34.
Sangobeg, i. 192.
Sangomoar, i. 192, 195.
Sangster, Alex., minister of Kilpatrick,

i. 398.
Sanquhar, ii. 61, 605 ; iii. xxiii, 197,

198.

castle, iii. 198.

Santans hill, iii. 57.
Saock, i. 61, 67; ii. 238.
Saoghar, i. 188.
Sapnock, i. 10.
Sardett loch, i. 158.
Sark, i. 382-386, 393.

tower, i. 365.

Sarkbridge, i. 366.

Sartegrim, i. 193.

Sarus Arrius, Fife, iii. 56.

Sasig, ii. 583.

Sauchall, iii. 132.

Sauchen, i. 96.

Sauchhill, ii. 13.

Sauchie, i. 307, 315, 332.

Sauchneill, iii. 121.

Sauchry, ii. 19.

Sauchton, ii. 617; iii. 118.

Sauchtonhall, ii. 617; iii. 118.

Saughland, ii. 620.

Savoill, i. 194.

Saxon tongue, notes on the origin of,

ii. 342.
Scabcleuch, iii. 166.
ScafEulill water, ii. 165, 520.
Scafin feasts, iii. 90.
Scairsoch, ii. 241, 249, 260, 573.
Scales moor, i. 384.
Scalloway castle, iii. 2J2, 254.
Scalpa, 1. 142, 172; ii. 182, 221, 531,

583 ; iii. 283, 294.
Scarbine, i. 166, 168.
Scarlaw, iii. 181.

Scarmalate, i. 177, 178, 180; iii. 84.
Scarneis, i. 71.
Scarpe, iii. 297.
Scarpnamut, iii. 286.
Scarr river, ii. 108 ; iii. 202, 203, 207.
Schalldister, iii. 252.

420

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Schallhill, iii. 133.

Schapinshaw. 6ee Shapinsha.

Schaw. See Shaw.

Scheilswood loch, iii. 1 37.

Scheipes isle. See Sheep.

Schelach Chrombe, ii. 613.

Schiach burn, i. 261.

Schinnernes, ii. 90.

Schirgartoun, i. 351.

Schron-Duf-Glash, ii. 5^1.

Sciennes, Midlothian, ii. 618; iii. 119.

Scitt, ii. 569.

Scoggely, ii. 550.

Scoonie, i. 299.

Scorba, ii. 192.

Scornivar, ii. 568.

Scosa, ii. 582.

Scotland, social life in, ii. xxi.

Scots, antiqaity of the, in Britain, ii.

327. ., .
Scotsbndge, 1. 372.
Scotsmiln, i. 35, 75.
Scotstoun, ii. 201 ; iii. 149.
Scott of Ancram, iii. 162.

of Benholme, iii. 240.

of Bristow, ii. 109.

of Eachaw, iii. 162.

of Galla, i. 361, 362.

of Gaudilands, iii. 162.

of Govenbcrry, iii. 162.

of Harden, i. 358.

of Langshaw, iii. 162.

of Mangerton, iii. 162.

of Oslahill, iii. 162.

of Raeburn, iii. 162.

of Rynoldbum, iii. 162.

of Sinton, iii. 162.

of Thirlstone, iii. 162.

of Toddridge, i. 356.

of Tushillaw, i. 357.

of Well, iii. 162.

of Whitsleid, iii. 162.

David, of Heatherwcck, ii. 42.

James, of Galashiels, iii. 140.

of Logie, ii. 41, 42 ; iii.

247.

John, of Lamphoy, iii. 17.

sir John, of Scotslarvet, ii. xiv,

xviii, 406.

Michael, ii. 58, 132.

Patrick, ii. 42.

— ^ Walter, of Arkiltoun, his descrip-
tion of Selkirk, iii. 138.

sir William, iii. 17, 96.

William, of Auchtydonald, i. 45.

sir William, of Harden, iii. 140,

176; his description of Roxburgh,

135-
sir William, of Merton, iii. 162.

Scott, William, of Thirlstoune, 357-

major, iii. 206.

Scottarie, iii. 99.

Scottish name, derivation of, ii. 385.

Scoudbruch, ii. 584.

Scoulonin, ii. 583.

Scouring bum, ii. 60S.

Scoury, i. 197, 199.

Scrabster, i. 172, 191 ; iii. 84.

Scrimgeor of Dudhope, ii. 50.

of Kirktoun, iii. 246.

of Litle-Kirktoun, ii. 33.

constable of Dundie, etc., ii. 31.

minister in Benvie, ii. 34.

minister in Dundie, ii. 32.

Scrog wood, iii. 149.

Scrogbank, iii. 164.

Scroggs, iii. 149.

Scrogy, Alexander, minister of Old

Aberdeen, ii. 473.
Scrougs, i. 369.
Scudechaell, ii. 547, 568.
Seabegs, i. 321, 322, 325.
Seaburgh, i. 235.
Sea calves, ii. 24, 45, 141.

lavender, ii. loi.

Seafield, i. 72, 215.

Seaforth, earl of, iL 210, 215, 414,.

. 532. 533.

Seamil bum, li. 591.

Seanan river, ii. 521.

Seeing-hill -Cross, iii. 174, 184.

Seeing-hill kirk, iii. 171-174.

Seill, li. 169 K ; iii. 268.

Selch-Skerrie, iii. 6, 302.

Selkirk, i. 362 ; ii. 607.

Selkirkshire, account of remarkable
places of, by John Hodge, i. 355 ;
account of the parish churches,
i* 363; description of, by Eliot of
Stobbs, iii. 138; description of the
sheriffdom, 163.

Sella Chory, ii. 536.

Sellach-vin, ii. 536.

Selm, ii. 616.

Selviiand, ii. 208.

Semple of Beltrees, ii. 206.

of Eliestoun, ii. 205, 206.

of Fulwood, ii. 197, 207.

Bryce, of Cathcart, ii. 201.

Gabriel, minister of Kilpatrick,.

i. 398. .

Hugh, lord, ii. 201, 206.

Tames, of Milbank, ii. 209.

John, lord, ii. 206.

of Fulwood, ii. 197, 207.

family, ii. 201.

castle, ii. 206, 606.

Senchastle, iii. 295.

GENERAL INDEX

421

Sennyglens-crosse, ii. 4.

Senta, iii. 294.

Senwick (Senick), ii. 65, 71, 126.

Servanus, St., i. 118.

Servin of Ireland, ii. 571.

Sesnock. See Cessnock.

Sessintilly, ii. 611.

Sestel river, ii. 562,

Seton (Seatoun), East and West, i. 275,

374, 375 ; "• 610.

house, iii. 1 14.

of Barns, i. 376.

of Blair, i. la

of Little Dublertie, ii. 238.

of Mounie, i. 10.

of Pitmedden, ii. 238.

■ of Shethiun, ii. 238.

sir Crislal, i. 377.

Robert, iii. xvi, xix.

William, his description of the

parish of For&r, i. 270.

family, i. 81, 84 ; ii. 406.

Seunabeg, iii. 296.

Seuna Moir, iii. 296.

Severus's wall, ii. 315, 315 w, 337» 357,

372.
Shabster, i. 184.
Shagie water, i. 139.
■Shaneccles, i. 352.
Shank, ii. 619, 622 ; iii. 120.
Shankcastle, iii. 205.
Shankstoun, ii. 588.
Shankwater, i. 373.
Shannalie, ii. 37.

Shapinsha, i. 142 ; iii. xiv, 304, 316.
Shaw of Bargaran, ii. 204.

of Craggy, i. 225.

of Geimmet, ii. 19.

of Greenock, ii. 205.

of Keirs, ii. 19.

of Tordarach, i. 225.

Alex., of Dell, iii. 240.

George, abbot of Paislay, ii. 206,

iii. 218.
sir John, of Greenock, i. 307 ; ii.

204, 205 ; his description of Renfrew,

iii. xiv, 125.
Lachlan, minister of Calder, i.

227 ; his description of Calder, i. 222,

224.
Shawbum, iii. 167.
Shawes, i. 357 ; iii. 167, 208.
Shaweshill, i. 357.
Shawes tower, i. 362.
Shawhead, i. 397.
Shedockley, iii. 89.
Shee water, i. ill, 112.
Sheelagreen, i. 5.
Sheep illand, ii. 187, 527 ; iii. 273.

Sheeves. See Shives.

Sheil river, ii. 414.

Sheilfield, Over and Nether, iii, 175.

Sheilgreen, iii. 151.

Sheith, i. 73.

Shelach of Minnok, ii. 586, 587.

Shelich, i. 22a

Shenwall, ii. 555.

Shephard, Andrew, i. 141.

Sheriifhall, ii. 6L9 ; iii. 120.

Sherif Moor, i. 313, 314; ii. 613.

Sherrell, i. 418.

Shethiun, ii. 238.

Shethrum bridge, i. 301.

Shetland, ii. 351, 352, 423, 510; de-
scription of, by capt John Smith,
iii. 60 ; iishenes, 63 ; fertility of
the women, 65 ; general description
of, 248.

Shewaltoun, i. 413.

Shield, the, i. 379.

Shieldhill, i. 321-323.

Shlelhop, iii. 1 52.

Shiells, iii. 183.

Shin river, i. 200, 201 ; ii. 419, 438,
439, 594 ; iii. 100, loi,

Shiphaugh, i. 315.

Shiplaw, iii. 150.

Shiray river, ii. 146, 534.

Shirmers, i. 397.

Shives, i. 43 ; ii. 238.

Shletadell, iii. 99, 100.

Short-cleuch-braes, iii. 38.

Short-cleuch- water, iii. 41, 52.

Shorlhope, iii. 166.

Shotts, I. 414, 419.

Showting corie, ii. 596.

Shulag, li. 599.

Shurrey, i. 184, 185.

Shutinglies, iii. 164.

Shyra, ii. 545.

Shyro Beg, ii. 576.

Shyro Moir, ii. 576.

Siach burn, i. 429.

Sibbald of Balgony, iii. 96.

David, iii. 65.

John, minister at Aberdeen, ii.

473-

Mathew, iii. 96.

sir Robert, ii. v ; his contributions

from James Gordon, xix, 21 ; his
information on the shire of Forfar,
xxvii ; iii. xxi, 244 ; letter to, from
Dr. Miln, 15 ; his description of
Orkney, x.

Sidderay, iii. 103.

Sidlaw hills, i. 279 ; ii. 33,

Siell-Allan-Wick Rannald, ii. 522.

Siell-Eachin, ii. 520.

482

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Sicft,uL I52._
SigEun Beg, nL 299.

' 1 Moir Nagoindn, uL 299.

,u.9,439: iiL i6,47*49>

53-55. !<». 143-
Simmcrtoiin, iL 368.
Simprin, L 378 ; in. 173; 179* i8a
Simpsoo of Tbamtoan^ i. la
Agnes, cared of hmacy at the well

of Strathill, in« 91.
Alez., mniister of Mertoon, in.

176.

minnrrr in Logie. iL 41.

•^— > mJni^cT in Navar, iL 39.
Sinclair of Mnikle, L 171.

lofdfiL 406.

of Ravensheugfa, iL 423.

Alex., of Don, L i77-i8a

of Swinzie, L 166.

David, of Freswick, L 1561

of Southdon, L i76-i8a

Edward, iii. 308.

Francis^ of Isanld, L 183.

George, of Biabster, L 153.

of Lybster, L 166.

sir Tames, of Dunbeath, L 159,

164, 167, 177. 178, 181.

of Mej, L 152.

of Markle, iiL 85.

James, iiL 308, 309.

John, of Assarie, L 184.

of Barrock, L 176.

master of Caithness, iii.

103.

of Dunbeath, i. 163.

of Ulbster, i. 167, 170-

172, 176, 181.
sir John, of Stevenson, L 377.

Patrick, portioner of Brabster

Dorren, i. 177.

of Brims, L 173.

Richard, of Thura, i. 1 76.

Wm.,of Frcswick, L 152.

of Giese, L 173.

£unily, ii. 4x2, 423.

castle, i. 157, 159.

Singlie, iiL 166.
Siol, ii. 568.
Sion ferrie, iL 154, 516.
Sipa, iiL 54.
Sisterpath, iiL 180.
Siward water, iL 184, 533.
SkaffitilL 5'^4fScafladilL
Skaill, i. 184.
Skairsboura, iL 66-68.
Skaithmuir, i. 330, 331.
Skar, ii. 93.
Skar water. S^e Scar.
Skarbey, iii. 266.

Skatcfow, L 247, 256 ; iiL ill, 236.

Skattag. ii. 558.

Skaniy Moir, iL 56a

Skeal^ia-mownan, iL 551.

Skeir-Alloway, iL 525.

Skeir Alvie kirk, iL 574.

Skelbo, iL 441, 442 ; iiL 98, 105, 107.

castle, iL 420, 441.

Skellater, i. 2a

Skelleray, iL 105.

Skelmorlie, ii. 59a

water, iL 205.

Skelpig. L 188.

Skemoor, iiL 178.

Skcnadyr, iL 583.

Skene, L 96, 99, 261, 429.

Alexander, of Newtyle, his sorv^

of the town of Aberdeen, iii. zvi^
XX. 87.

of Lethenty, i. 7, 18, 85.

John, Uwyer, ii. 473.

Skerray, L 19a

Skianach, iL 583, 584.

Skibo, ii. 545 ; iiL 100, 105.

castle, iL 420, 441.

Skiddalells, L 386.

Skifters, L 284.

Skillimamock, L 6a

Skinner, Mr., minister in Brechin, iL
40.
' Skinnet, L 19a

Skipnesse, ii. 186, 526 ; iii. 264.
! Skirdustan, L 230.
• Skiriad, L 19a

Skirline, iiL 1 51, 155, 156.

Mains, iiL 151.

I Skitrig, iii. 150.

Skhitt. See Slait.
I Skormyvarr, ii. 547.
> Skor na Kerrin, ii. $$2.

na Morroch, ii. 544.

Roura, iL 544.

Skowthell, i. i8a

Skreel, i. 39s ; iii. 55-
. Skryshbhinn, L 194.

Skurlimy, i. 190.

Skumaj^onery, iL 551, 552.

Skye. iL 182, 212, 352, 414, 417, 525,
53i» 532, 582 ; iiL 281 ; description
of, iL 219.

Slack, iii. 152.

SUines, i. 38, 43. 97, 193, 3io; iL 237,
257;iu. 13, 227.

cove, iii. 238.

Slait (Sklate), iL 174, 182, 220, 221,
525* 531, 583; iii. 269, 282.

Slamabach,!. 311, 314.
Slate quarries, L 4, S ; iii- 103.

Slatich, ii. 562.

GENERAL INDEX

4S3

Slattadale, ii. 438.

Slaty, i. 99.

Sleach, ii. 558.

Sleepy market, i. 15.

Slegein, iii. 296.

Sleischillis, ii. 439, 600 ; iii. 58.

Slesse Chewles, ii. 545.

Slew-gain mountains, ii. 513.

Sliach, i. 86 ; ii. 608.

Slich, provost of Haddington, iii. 65.

Sligach, ii. 554.

Sligachan, iii. 281.

Sliklie, i. 177.

Slipperfield, iii. 146.

loch, iii. 144.

Slitrik, iii. ij6.

Slogg of Desk, i. 102.

Sloss, ii. 589.

Slowie, L 104.

Slow-worms, iii. 193.

Slug of Gellen, iii. 237.

Slungiecarne, i. 125.

Sma^U hill, iii. 132.

Smailholm, iii. 137, 172^ 173, 176.

Spittle, iii. 176.

Small, Mr., minister in Cortachie and

Clova, ii. 29.

minister of Forfar, ii. 25.

Smart, John, minister of Wick, i.

162.
Smeaton, ii. 617 ; iii. 114, 118.
Smelhop, iii. 152.
Smiddie Shawis, ii. 588.
Smiddihill, i. 24 ; ii. 202 ; iii. 182.
Smikin, i. 168.

Smith of Inveramsay, i. 7, 18.
captain John, his description of

Shetland, iii. xix, 60.
Smithfeild castle, iii. 151.
Smithstowne, ii. 19.
Smoa, i. 192.

Smollett, sir James, of Bonhill, i. 353 ;
. ii. 197, 200.
Snaat water, i. 345.
Snake water, i. 138.
Sneep, iii. 177.
Sneisport, iii. 281.
Snisort water, ii. 582.
Snowtoun, i. 264.
Soa, ii. 222 ; iii. 278, 281, 292.
Soccoch, i. 25, 26, 28, 31, 32.
Social life in Scotland, ii. xxi.
Society Port, ii. 626.
Sodora, ii. 216, 219.
Soell river, ii. $21.
Solan geese, ii. 3, 212; iii. 6, 113.
Solburu water, iii. 128.
Solway firth, i. 366^ 371, 382, 385 ; ii.

i3i.355» 510; iii. 56.

Somerled, iii. 260.

Sommiluaks chapel, i. 30.

Sorbie, i. 394 ; ii. 70, 78» 81, 82, 85,

86,88, 98, 106, 115, 126; iii. 128.
Sorn, ii. 587, 588.
Sorrabij chapel, ii. 218.
Soules, lord, iii. 138.
Soulseat (Saulseat), ii. 85, 95.
Soundbrou^h-head. See Sumburgh.
Southay, iii. 3x3.
South Bar, i. 424, 425.
South Calder water, i. 420; ilL 133.
South Coston, i. 280.
Southdun, i. 179.
Southesk, i. 272, 273, 275, 284, 373 ; "•

22, 23, 29, 37-43, 617 ;i". 120.
earl of, ii. 21, 27, 38, 40, 41, 43.

44, 47,48,50; "i. 247.
South Fardin hill, iii. 54, 56.
Southhook, ii. 209.
Southhouse, ii. 618; iii. 120.
South Loch, ii. 625.
— Ronaldsay, i. 153 ; iii. 310.
Southside, ii. 619; iii. 121.
South Sintoun, iii. 167, 169.
South Tarrie, ii. 45.
South Uist, ii. 210.
South wick, ii. 54, 56, 71.
South wood, iii. 132.

water, ii. 615 ; iii. 1 16, 117.

Soutray, iii. 114.

Sowerdil, ii. 545.

Sowie, i. 2.

Sowiehill, i. I, 2, 12, 13, 35.

Sownay, iii. 311.

Soya Moir, iii. 296.

Spalding of Ashintillie, ii. 36.

Spang, William, minister in Campvere,

ii. XX.
Spangoe.ii. 195.
Spanizidell, ii. 545 ; iii. lOi.

water, ii. 545.

Sparkside, i. 313.

Speachan river, ii. 158 », 161, 173, 519,

523, 600.
Speckled chapel, now Falkirk, iL 368.
Spedling, i. 368.

Speed, John, his maps of Scotland, ii.
^ 57, 75, 87,90. _^., . ^

Spence, James, of Kirktone, i. 238.

i. 237.

Nicol, letter to, from James Fraser,

i. 211.

family, i. 234, 236.

Spencer's Mains, iii. 182.

Spey water, i. 88, 230. 239; ii. 173. 224,

232, 246, 248-254, 264, 306, 475,

476, 519, 573-578, 600; iii. 130,

240.

434

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Speynzie palace, iii. 130.
Spital, ii. 483 ; iii. 182.
Spittelburn, i. 260, 428.
Spitteltoun, ii. 611.
Spittlehauch, iii. 142, 146.
Spittle hill, iii. 83.
Spittle of Reule, iii. 136.
Spotswood, iii. 179.

of that ilk, iii.- 184.

Spreuls of Loudoun, ii. 200.

Sprinkell, i. 371.

Sprout of Welltrees, ii. 4.

Spynie, description of the parish, i.

229.

castle, ii. 307, 433.

lord, ii. 37, 50.

Spy-slack, ii. 588.

Stable Croft, iii. 237.

Stabletown, i. 371.

Stack island, iii. 6.

Staimster, i. 177, 184.

SUink, ii. 598.

Stair, i. 412.

Stairsoch, ii. 600.

Stakbeades, iii. 274.

Stalker iland, ii. 155, 516.

Standing Stone, i. 234.

stones in Reay, i. 185, 242, 245,

257 ; of Torhouse, ii. 74 ; in Leurs,

213 s in Aberdeenshire, 265 ; at

Forres, 307.
Standstill, i. 176, 177.
Stangregill, i. 175.
Stanhope (Stenop) mills, iii. 118.
Stanley (Stainly), ii. 209, 591.

castle, ii. 202.

Stanmoorlaw, iii. 180.

Stanneries, i. 367.

Stanoim, ii. 548.

Staplegordon, i. 387, 388, 390 ; ii. 125,

127 ; ministers of, 392.

minister of Kilpatrick, i. 398.

Starks of Achinwooll, ii. 195.

Starr rocks, iii. 61.

Starrwood, i. 234.

Stawfoord, iii. 136.

Staxigo, i. 157, 161 ; iii. 84.

Steill-chorri, iii. loi.

Stenhouse, i. 324-330; ii. 618; iii.

134, 308.
Stenhouse Hope, iii. 136.
Stenhousemills, ii. 617.
Stensboll, ii. 582.
Stepler, i. 79.

Stevenson of that ilk, i. 421.
Stevenson's description of Beath parish,

i. 302 ; his description of the parish

of Lecropt, i. 310.
Stevenston, i. 377 ; iii. 1 14, 148.

Stewart of Appin, ii. 516.

of Ardgowan, ii. 205.

of Am-Tully, ii. 571, 572.

of Barscube, ii. 203,

of Blackball, ii. 205, 208.

of Blair, iii. 222.

of Bute, i. 322.

of Craigtoun, i. 338.

of Damly, ii. 201.

of Durisdeer, iii. 201.

of Gardin TuUy, ii. 571.

of Garlics, i. 402.

of Halrig, ii. 202.

of Innermeath, ii. 50.

of Kinguidy, i. 10.

of Lome, ii. 155.

of Rosyth, ii. 5a

Alex., of Annat, i. 338.

of Bonkle, iii. 148.

of Darnly, ii. 202.

of Gartnafnaro, i. 335.

Allan, of Dreghom, ii. 201.

Bernard, viceroy of Naples, iiu

93-

George, of Ballachan, i. 338.

John, of Blairhall, i. 292.

- sir John, of Bonkle, ii. 201.

capt. John, of Denns, i. 45, 63.

John, of Gaimtullie, iii. 246.

of Glenbuckie, i. 335.

of Phisgill, ii. 86.

Murdo, duke of Albany, i. 343.

duke of Fife, i. 338.

earl Patrick, iii. 252.

Robert, of Innerdunning, i. 123.

of Ravinstone, ii. 85.

Tho., of Barscube, ii. 203.

sir William, of Castlemilk, ii.

205.

William, of Castle Stewart, ii. 76,

I 1 10.

1 colonel William, ii. 76.

I family, ii. 203, 235, 308 ; iii,

218.
I Stewart Croft, iii. 237.
I Stewarthal, i. 315.
I Stewartown, ii. 590 ; iii. 205.

' Over und Nether, iii. 151.

I Stew Bak<n, ii. 612.

Stincher river, ii. 1, 3, 5, 14, 15, 19*
585. 586.

Stinstoun, ii. 591.
! Stirkfeild, iii. 149.

I Stirling (Sterlin, Striveling), i. 416 ; ii.
192, 193. 356, 402, 579, 581. 593.
595.

bridge, i. 12c.

castle, i. 328.

of Quoigs, i. 313.

GENERAL INDEX

426

Stirling (Sierlin, Striveling), Andrew,

of Portnallan, ii. 195.
^^sir Henry, of Ardoch, i. 130, 138.

John, of Gardenn, i. 351.

of Law, ii. 195.

William, of Achyll, i. 341.

of Gloratt, ii. .195.

-^ of Herbertshire, 1. 348.

Stitchell, iii. 162, 172, 177, 194.
Stobbs, iii. 137.
Stobhill, ii. 619; iii. 121.
Stobo, ii. 622; iii. 142, 155, 156.
Stockbridge, iii. 164, 176, 185.
Stockings, price of, i. 248.
Stoddart of Hope, i. 356.
Stodfield, i. 36.
Stokfoord, ii. 539.
Stonebyres, iii. 134, 135.
Stoneflet, ii. 200, 619 ; iii. 120.
Stonehaven (Stonehive), i. 248, 257,

264, 265 ; ii. 473 ; »i- 232, 235.
Stonehouse, i. 415; iii. 119.

of Gicht, i. 99.

Stone Ludd, i. 178.
Stonfern, ii. 570.
Stoniefeild, i. 86.
Stoniehill, ii. 617 ; iii. 1x8.
Stoniekirk, ii. xvii, 89, 90, 94-98, 114,

11^, 117, 126; iii. 128.
Stomepath, iii. 114, 145.
Stonnywood, i. 99, 100.
Storehead of Assint, i. 196, 199.
Stormont, description of, ii. 571 » iii*

221.

viscount of, 1. 387.

Stornoway(Steomua),ii. 184, 215, 532,

599.

castle, ii. 214 ; iii. 300.

Stotwell, i. 233.

Stow, i. 362; ii. 620; iii. 121, 123,

163.
Straan Skerray, i. 190.

- Tongue, i. 190.

Stracathro (Strickathrow), i. 262, 264,

272, 274 ; ii. 40, 41.
Strachan, i. 259, 260, 261, 264, 266,

428, 429.

of Achnagat, ii. 238.

of Balgayes, iii. 245.

of Dalhakie, i. 104.

of Thorntinc, iii. 240.

^^ James, minister of Kinneff, i. 258.

Robert, of Monte Rosarum, ii.

xvii.

; admiral, of Aberdeen, ii. 474.

. '- minister in Guthrie, ii. 48.

minister in Mayiies, ii. 33..

minister in St. Vigeans, ii. 45.

Strachur (Strayhurr), ii. 145, 511.

] Strae river, ii. 513.
I Strahendyrry, ii. 551.

Straiton (Stratowne), i. 401 ; ii. 2, 7,
j 10, 18, 19, 618; iii. 120.

of Lauriston, iii. 240.

minister in OathLiw, ii. 37.

Straits ward ill, iii. 281.
I Straloch, i. 84.
I Stranavern, ii. 545.
' Stranbery, iii. 6o.

Strang, John, gardener at Cardross, i.
342.

a native of Forfar, settled in

Sweden, i. 271.

provost of Forfar, i. 271 ; ii. 25.

Stranraer, ii. 89-100, 116, 124, 126;
iii. 128.

Strath, ii. 221.

Strath-Airlie, ii. 36.

Strath AUadale, i. 182, 185-187, 200.

Strathallan, i. 130.

Strathardle, i. 280 ; ii. 182, 531.

Strathardoch, ii. 598.

Stratharkeg, i. 218-223; ii. 172, 434,

525, 555. 556, 573-

Strath-avon, ii. 230, 234,243, 250,252,
262, 312, 575.

Strathbeg water, i. 68, 195, 285, 286 ;
ii. 23, 47, 236, 541-

.^^trathblane, i. 349 ; ii. 580.

Strathbogie, i. 65, 79, 80, 82, 86, 88 ;
ii. 232, 233, 239, 244, 249, 250, 254-
258, 262, 266, 267, 312, 432 ; iii. 93.

castle, ii. 233, 255.

Strathbran, ii. 540, 551, 571-

Strath Brora, ii. 419, 43^ ; iii- 99-

Strath Cannord, ii. 601.

Strathcarron, ii. 417, 546, 547-

Strath Chluynie, ii. 549.

Strath Chrumachkan, ii. 600.

Strath Daill ne Mep, iii. lOi.

Strath-dail-narwe, li. 439 ; iii. loi.

Strath-dail-nemeyn, ii. 439.

Strath Dalenarwe. See Strath-dail-
narwe.

Strathdee, ii. 241, 250, 260.

Strath Deveron, i. 79.

Strath Dichtie Marline, ii. 23.

Strathdon, i. 7, I9. 23, 27, 28 ; ii. 243,
249, 262 ; iii. 243 ; description of, by
Joseph Robertson, i. 37.

Stratheaghie, ii. 144* S^'-

Strath Earn, i. 120, 228 ; ii. 402, 403,
406, 428, 429. 434, 558, 573, 607.

Stratheleit, iii. 100.

Stratherick, i. 225 ; ii. 312 ; iii. 18.

Strathfarigag, i. 218.

Strath Farrar, ii. 552, 553.

Stralhfeor, ii. 552, 555.

4S6

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Stnuhfillan, i. 334 ; ii. 534, 537, 564.
Strath Kleit or Strath Floid, ii. 439.
StrathfountaiD, iii. 173, 182.
Stratbgartnay, ii. 565, 566.
Strathglassy iu 550, 553.
Strath Grieff, ii. 207 ; iii. 213.
Strath Hasgeg, ii. 542.
Strath Houim, il 582, 583.
Strath-Isla, ii. 231, 232, 249, 250, 254,

266, 267, 312.
Strath Kinnedell, iii. 100.
Strathmartine, ii. 30, 34 ; iii. 246.

laird of, ii. 34, 50.

Strath Masessy, ii. 600.
Strathmiglo, L 115, xi6, 294.
Strathmore, i. 285 ; ii. 23, 26, 35-37 ;

iii. 231.
carle of, i. 110, 277 ; ii. 22, 26-37,

50.
StrathDaim, i. 225, 226; ii. 172, 173,

312, 428, 434, 557.
Strathnavcr, i. 171, 186 ; ii. 311, 359,

413. 417, 418, 420, 422, 436, 437,

441, 442, 559, 576; iii. 59, 96, 97,

106, 108 ; description of, ii. 424.
Strath nc Finay, ii. 439 ; iii. loi.
Strath-ne-Seilg, ii. 439.
Strath ne Saily, iii. 100.
Strathnordell, iii. 97.
Strathoikel, i. 202, 214; ii. 417, 545,

546, 569-60X.
Strathord house, ii. 571.
Strath Ordell, ii. 583.
Strath Rennach, ii. 551.
Strathskinnedel, ii. 439.
Strathspey, ii. 224, 249, 253, 306, 307,

312, 573, 577; description of, iii.

240.
Strathtay, ii. 598.
Strathtelleny, ii. 439 ; iii. lOi.
Strath terry, ii. 439 ; iii. 100.
StrathtoUy, ii. 439 ; iii. loi.
Strath Ully, ii. 419, 438 ; iii. ICX)-I02.
Strathvaich, ii. 551.
Strath Wrann, ii. 601.
Strathy, i. 187, 200 ; iii. 109.
Strathy-head, i. 187 ; ii. 359, 421,441,

560.

river, ii. 426, 441, 560.

Strayhnee, ii. 145.

Straytsnardill, iii. 282.

Streines, i. 228.

Strichen, i. 44, 48, 53, 54, 61, 63; iii.

227 ; description of, by Fergiisson, i.

59.

castle, ii. 237.

Strick Arduran, ii. 534.
Stroma, i. 152 ; iii. 84.
Strome castle, ii. 538, 548, 550.

Strome hill, iL 538.

Stromness, iii..j09.

Stronavizairg, ii. 613.

Stronchrow^, ii. 545.

Stron Combre, ii. 564.

Stron Edernaig, ii. 612.
I Stxon-eyin, ii. ^58.
' Stron Lochen, ii. 566.
[ Stron Meulacban, iL 147, 512* 536,

'.565. .. ^ ... .

Stronsay, u. 600 ; lu. xxiv, 303 ;
Stronsarians massacred by the Sanday
islanders, iii. 303.
I Strubathroe, ii. 37.

Struthers castle, ii. 406.

Struthill well, cures of lunacy effected
at, iii. 91.

Struy, ii. 552, 553.

Struyhill, i. 125.

Stuckintaggart, i. 344.

Stuk-roy, ii. 536.

Stomaig, ii. 552.

Suardalie, i. 187.

Suddie, i. 205 ; description of the
parish, 207.

Beg, ii. 554.

Moir, ii. 554.

Suilskeray, iii. 301.
' Sulphur, iii. 16.

Sumbu^h Head, iii. 60, 249.
I Summer Eves £Eiir, i. 89.
I Summerhouse, i. 318.

Sunart, ii. 359.

Sunderlandhall, i. 361 ; iii. 136-139,.
164.

Sunderland haugh, iii. 144.

Sundhope, i. 36c; iii. 166.

bum, iii. 139.

Sundhope Edge, iii. 139.

Sundrum, ii. 587.

Sunicord, ii. 156, 166, 167.

Superstitions, ii. Ixvii; iii. 91, 203,

243. 301-
Surrone, i. 384.
Sutherland, ii. 311, 359, 360, 416, 421,

422, 427, 433 ; account of, u. 417,

436; iiL 57, 96.
earls of, ii. 412, 417, 420, 439»

441-443-

of Berridale, iii. 60.

of Forse, i. 164, 166.

Adam, earl of, iii. 59.

Alexander, earl of, iii. 59,

104.

of Kinmenity, i. 90.

Andrew, minister of Lathi on» L

169.

I Elizabeth, countess of, ill. 59.

George, earl of, iii. 59.

GENERAL INDEX

427

Sutherland, James, of Keam, i. 235.
John, earl of, ii. 440 ; iii. 57-59,

103, 104, no.

Kenneth, earl of, iii. 59.

Magdalene, countess of, iii. 99.

Nicnolas, earl of, iii. 59, 60.

Robert, earl of, iii. 60.

of Langwall, i. 164.

William, earl of, iii. 58.

of Rosehaugb, i. 235.

Suton, sir George, iii. 114.

Suy, ii. 5.35.

Suyack, u. on.

Suy Challen, ii. 570.

Suy-Chumman, ii. 556.

Swanber^, iii. 61.

Swans, ii. 433, 439.

Swansfeild, iii. 183.

Swansrie bum, i. 2^7.

Swanston, ii. 618; iii. 119.

Sweetheart abbey, i. 399.

Swinewood, iii. 183.

Swinstie, ii. 590.

Swintown, i. 378; iii. 137, 173, 178.

Alex., of Mersingtoun, iii. 178.

Swyne isle, ii. 528 ; iii. 280.

Swynord, ii. 517, 521.

Syde, i. 15 ; il 209.

Sykes of Haswell, iiL 150.

Syme, minister of Mortlach, i. 88.

Symintoun, i. 409, 413.

Symmer of Baljordie, ii. 38.

Symmerdaill, iii. 309.

Symson, Andrew, printer in Edinburgh,

i. xi; description of Galloway, ii.

xxvii, 51.
Symmerstoun, iii. 125.
Synenes, iii. 129.
Synn river, ii. 547.
Syro or Phyray river, ii. 512.

Tachingaw, iii. 84.

Tain, i. 214, 215; ii. 416, 417, 420,

568, 569.

firth of, ii. 416, 418, 547.

Taineband mountain, ii. 442.

Tairpland, iii. 57.

Tairskeray, iii. 273.

Tairth water, iii. 145, 149, 150, 155.

Taitt, John, Macfarlane's transcriber, i.

X ; li. vi-viii, xii, xlvii ; iii. vii.
Taitt's cross, i. 363.
Tallasaid, i. 191.
Talla water, iii. 141, 145, 153.
Tallunoch, ii. 576.
Talnen river, ii. 595.
Tamfoth, i. 324.
Tamia, ii. 358.
Tamnabanrie, ii. 613.

Tanar water, i. 106 ; ii. 242, 261.

Taneste, iii. 275

Tannadice, i. 274, 275, 281 ; ii. 25-28 ;

description of the parish, i. 284.
Tanning of hides, ii. 119.
Tannochside, L 418.
Tantallon, iii. 113.
Taransay, iiL 296.
Tarbart, ii. 513, 526, 602, 604.
Tarbat, i. 197; ii. 149, 150, 186, 416,

S^St 593; account of the parish, i.

213; in Dumbartonshire, i. 344;

account of the parish, i. 354.

lord, i. 213.

Tarbat Ness, ii. 539, 547..

Tarbeg, ii. 26.

Tarbolltoun, i. 409, 4n.

Tarbrex, i. 316.

Tarff river, i. 220-223 ; ii. 64, 88, 109,

112, 113 ; ii. 171, 524, 556 ; iii. ia8.
Tarie, i. 275.
Tarlagy, ii. 547, 569.
Tarland, i. 19, 23, 25, 27, 28, 31, 35,

Tarmore, 1. 90.

Tarnash, i. 90.

Tarradale, i. 205, 211 ; ii. 555.

Tarras, Robert, minister of Olrigg, i.

175.
Tarres, iii. 162.

river, i. 390, 393.

Tartie, i. 97, 427.

Tarves, i. 10, 1 1, 13, 43, 45, 62, 94,

97, 98, 426 ; ii. 238 ; iii. 227.
Tassechuckary, ii. 613.
Tay, firth of, ii. 357, 361, 377, 387,

402, 403, 405, 406.
river, i. 298 ; ii. 22-24, 30» S^i

34, 237, 358, 429» 571.
Taylor of Borrowfeild, ii. 42.

of Mansfield, i. 313.

John, his description of Abemethie

parish, i. 115; of Rind and Dron,

126 ; of the parish of Monimail, 303 ;

of Newburgh, 304 ; of Gladsmure,

373.

minister of Kinnetles, ii. 26.

Taylortoun, i. 315.

Tealing, ii. 30, 33 ; iii. 246.

Tealmunn, i. 190.

Teaninich, i. 212.

Teavorrar, ii. 573.

Techmurie, i. 41.

Teeling burn, i. 420.

Teesinton, iii. 94.

Tegsay, iii. 273.

Teith (Teath), water of, i. 133, 134,

312,335-339; n. 593.610,612.

Tellerfair, i. 86.

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GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Telling. See Tealing.

Temple, ii. 6x9, 622; iii. 120,

155.

Templeland, ii. 588.

of Dalgarno, iii. 208.

of Linton, iii. 146.

Templen, i. 32.

Templeton, i. 30, 278.

Teneneur, ii. 547.

Tennis oastle, iii. 154.

Tenuck, ii. 546.

Terculan Law, iii. 184.

Terpersie, i. 21 n, 35.

Terraenavis, i. 12 x.

Terregles, i. 395, 396; ii. 53.56, 71,
130, 132; iii. 196.

Tervartness. See Tarbat Ness.

Teviot, the, iii. 134-136.

earl of, iii. 146.

Teviotdale, iii. 136. See also Rox-
burghshire.

Texa, ii. 189.

Thainstoun, i. 9.

Thanes of Dalswinton, i. 402.

of Tannadice, ii. 26, 28.

Tharstoun, iii. 114.

Thatching of churches, i. mw

Thiefs-holme, iii. 6.

Thieves' Port, ii. 476.

Thirdpart, ii. 206.

Thirlestane, i. 357 ; iii. 139, 162, 166,

175-

castle, 174, 185.

Thomas the Rhymer, iii. 175, 184.

Thomastowne, ii. 9, 21.

Thomson, Alex., of Portlethen, i. 250,

256.

John, i. 115, 389.

Thomas, of Fejchfeild, i. 45.

Thornhill, i. 339 ; ii. 202, 207.
Thornidike.- iii. 179, 184.
Thornilee, iii. 164.
Thornton, i. 10, 262, 263, 269.

of that ilk, ii. 28, 50.

Thorntonloch, iii. 11 1.

Tliornywhat, i. 368.

Thrave, ii. 21.

Threave island, ii. 63, 64, 109.

Threeburnfoord, iii. 174.

Threipland, iii. 151.

Threip Moss Sike, iii. 149.

Throkden, iii. 137.

Throsk, i. 315.

Thrumster, i. 157, 160.

Thule, dissertation on the island of,

ii. 351.
Thunderbolts in Wick, iii. 12.
Thunderton, i. 69, 230.
Thura, i. 176.

Thurso, i. 151, i6l, 164, 169, 176,
179» 181; ii. 423, 424; iii. 84,
86.

Thursler, i. 157, 160.

Tibbers burn, iii. 20 1, 202.

• castle, iii. 202.

Tides in Orkney, iii. 7, 10.

Tig, ii. 3. 15-

Tilinn, i. 192.

Tillepmorgan, i. 4.

Tillcry, i. 98 ; iii. 54.

Tillicorthy, i. 98.

Tillicoultry, i. 136, 307.

Tilliebimie, ii. 38 ; iii. 247.

Tillieminit, i. 35.

Tillienaught, i. 74.

Tillieangus, i. 14.

Tilliequhadline, ii. 28.

TiUifour, i. 2, 5-7, i3» 95. 97-

Tilliquhilly, i. 259, 428.

Tillycairn, i. 96.

Tillymorgan, i. i, 12.

Tillymurdoch, i. iii, 113.

Tima water, iii. 166.

Timort, ii. 547.

Tin, iii. 53.

Tindlaa, i. 25.

Tinmell Kainnachan, ii. 597.

Tinnal, ii. 126, 570, 571.

Tinron, iii. 202-204.

Tinto hill, iii. 132-135.

Tinvin, i. 168.

Tiot. See Teviot.

Tippertie, i. 427.

Tiriladge, i. 32.

Tirrim castle, ii. 522.

Tirrimundle, i. 31.

Tister, i. 177.

Tiltie bum, i. 86.

Tivarie, iii. 99.

Tivein, iii. 297.

Tochen, i. 94.

Todhead, iii. 236.

Todhold burn, i. 314-

Todlachy, i. 95, 97.

Todlae, i. 77.

Todridge, i. 356, 363; iii. 167, 176-
178.

Toftingall, i. 179.

Tofts, iii. 178.

Toine, iii. 97.

Tokkok hills, ii. 552.

Tolbooth prison, ii. 17, 626.

Toldowy, ii. 543.

Tollaphin, i. 34.

Tol na Mewlich hills, ii. 551.

Tolquhon, i. 98 ; ii. 238.

Tolquhon, laird of, i. 44.

Tomads, i. 103.

GENERAL INDEX

4S9

Tom-aken, ii. 557.
Tombeck, ii. 567.
Tomchewrin, ii. 563.
Tomchoit, ii. 599.
Tome Inche, ii. 577.

Tewele or Kyknow, ii. 599.

TomfurhilT, i. 322.
Tomluther crocestane, iii. 138.
Toramari Lin, i. 326.
Tom na clag, ii. 603. .
Tomryc, ii. 567.
Tomteirvin, ii. 598.
Ton bridge, i. 96.

burn, i. 32, 95-97.

Tonaig-Etera-loch, ii. 563.

Tongue, i. 170, 186, 189-191 ; ii. 583.

castle, ii. 441.

Tongueland abbay, ii. 53, 59, 63, 64,

68, 71. 109, 125, 126, 131.
Tonkry, ii. 598.
Tonotrie, i. 405.
Tontamurich, ii. 583.
Tontwyne, ii. 598.
Tooray, iii. 294.
Tophillbum, i. 324.
Top Tillery, i. 64.
Torbain, ii. 578.
Torbrek, ii. 555.
Torbridge, i. 329.
Torbullabin, ii. 600.
Torcastle, ii. 160, 163.
Tordarach, i. 225 ; ii. 557.
Torduff, ii. 581.
Torfachie, i. 286.
Torhendry, i. 69.
Torhouse, ii. 74, 113; iii. 129.

laird of, ii. 113.

Tormaise, ii. 583.
Tomascheh, i. 26.
Torphichen, i. 317.318-
Torrantarve, i. 191.
Torrens (Torrance), iii. 134.
Torrich, i. 224.
Torriechastell castle, ii. 518.
Torringen castle, ii. 588.
Torrisdale, i. 189, 190 ; iii. 190.

river, ii. 425,441, 561.

Torrish, iii. 105.

— castle, ii. 420, 441.

Torry, i. 290, 338, 339 ; ii. 481, 483,

567, 611; iii. 236.
Torryburn (Tourbum), 1. 287, 289,

292, 307.
Torsonce, ii. 620; iii. 121.
Torwood, i. 329, 330, 333, 334.
Torwoodhead, i. 333.
Torwoodlee, i. 362 ; iii. 139, 164.
Toskerton, ii. 95, 98, 126.
Tothead, i. 258.

Tothorwald, iii. 192.
I Touch, i. 9i6, 101, 103, 315; ii. 604,
610.

Toun caslel, ii. 587.
1 Toung. See Tung.
! Toutigan, i. 187.
i Touttin Icra, ii. 582.

Ocre, ii. 582.

Tow, iL 598.

Towanriff, i. 31.

Towart, ii. 511.

Tower, the, iii. 137.

Towie, i. 19, 21 and «, 23, 25-28, 37,
92, 93 ; ii. 238.

castle, i. 27, 42.

ofClatt, i. 15.

Trabrown, i. 375; iii. 175.

Trailbraw chapel, i. 370.

Trailflat, ii. 125-127.

Traligill river, ii. 359, 414, 545, 600,
601.

Tranent, i. 373.

Traprenlaw, iii. 112.

Traquair, ii. 53,56, 71, 126, 130 ; iii.
155. 163, 164, 196.

earl of, i. 360.

Trayrmore of Killbarray, iii. 287.

Trebuyl, ii. 535.

Trewel fair, i. 16.

Trimontium, ii. 355.

Trinitarian friars, ii. 245.

Trinity Banchory, i. 428.

Trinity Moor, i. 274.

Trochrig, ii. 13, 585.

Troda, li. 223.

Troislichen, ii. 566.

Trombuy, ii. 567.

Tron church, ii. 626.

Tronderness (Trotternish), ii. 182, 531^
582, 584; iii. 281,282.

Tronlills, i. 186.

Troquham castle, ii. 586.

Trotter of Charterhall, iii. 180.

Trottingshaw, iii. 181.

Troul glen, i. 403.

water, i. 401.

Troup, i. 42, 47, 48 ; ii. 236.

laird of, i. 41.

Troutemesse. See Tronderness.

Trowhem, i. 397.

Tnidarscaig, i. 189.

Trumbuster, ii. 421.

Trumwine, ii. 319.

Tucher, i. 79.

Tuddinvain, ii. 583.

Tuggairt, ii. 611.

Tuilin, iii. 284.

Tulcorse, ii. 27.

Tulielt, i. 98 ; ii. 238.

430

GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECITONS

TuUiallan, i. ^06.
Tullibardine, 1. 130, 137.
TuUibodie, i. 136, 308, 309.
Tullich or Tulloch, i. 23, 87, 105-107,
246 ; in Luss, i. 354 ; in Strathnairn,

ii. 557.

Tullich cleurr, ii. 607.

TuUichcromb, ii. 599, 600.

Tullichewn, i. 353 ; ii. 200.

Tullich Mackerry, ii. 559.

Tullichowil), ii. 598.

Tullich Row, ii. J78.

Smagarre, ii. 608.

Tullienesle, i. 2, 13, 21, 34.

Tullivern hills, ii. 564.

TuUoss, i. 7.

Tulmen river, ii. 573.

Tuna water, iii. 138.

Tunergarth, i. 369, 372.

Tung, ii. 559, 561 ; iii. 105, 109.

Turin loch, i. 276.

Turk water, i. 337.

Turlean, i. 129.

Turnaeg Cra, ii. 546.

Icrach, ii. 546.

Ocra, ii. 546, 569.

Turnberry, ii. i, 5f 9.

TumbuU of Strickathro, ii. 41.

Turner of Tumerhall, i. 43.

Turnerclugh, i. 390.

Tumerhall, i. 43, 97, 99, 426.

Turners kirkland, i. 399.

Turniedykes, ii. 619; iii. 121.

Turret water, i. 139.

Turretan water, ii. 538.

Turriff (Terif), i. 42, 48, 60-63, 65, 78 ;
ii. 238, 257, 534, 556 ; iii. 226 ; de-
scription of the parish by Wm.
Walker, i. 91.

river, i. 42, 44, 78, 92 ; ii. 238,

257, 266.

Turrinche, ii. 601, 602.

Tushillaw, i. 357 ; iii. 166.

Tuymtintervach or Tuytintervah, ii.

546, 569.
Twa Gildis loch, iii. I40.
Tweed, the, i. 355, 360-362, 378, 380;

ii. 319, 346, 357, 592, 593. 620; iii.

136, 163, 170.
Tweeddale, description of, iii. X40.

marquis of, i. 43.

Tweedhopefoot, iii. 153.
Tweedie of Drumelzear, iii. 154.
Tweedmoor, iii. 153, 155, 156.
Tweeds Cross, i. 365 ; iii. 140, 141.
Twin Lawes, iii. 184.
Two mile bum, iii. 133.
Twynam(Twynholm),ii. 64,65,68, 71,

108, 131, 132.

Tychctsheugh, i. 332.

Tygyrmach, ii. 599.

Tyne river, ii. 357, 372, 615, 619 ; iii.
Ill, 120, 373, 376.

Tynet, i. 240-242.

Tyninghame, ii. 615, 619 ; iii. iii, 114,
116, 121.

Tyninour, ii. 569.

Tynto. See Tinto.

Tyrebagger, i. 31.

Tyrfegoun, ii. 600.
I Tyree, ii. 177, 217-219.

Tyrie, i.41, 44. 47, 50. 59; iii- 227;
I description of, i. 53.
I of Dunnydeer, i. 4.

UcHTRiE Macken CAVE, iii. 195.

Udiston, i. 417.

Uderga, iii. 269.

Udergan water, iii. 266.

Udny, i. 9, 84, 98, 426, 427 ; ii. 238 ;
iii. 227.

of Uduy, ii. 238.

Ugie water, i. 39, 44, 62, 63-70 ; ii. 144,
, 511 ; iii. 225, 228.
I Uibeg, i. 193-
I Uig, ii. 222, 584.

Uist, ii. 180, 181, <29 ; iii. 94, 289.

Ulbster, i. 157, 158, i6a

Ulies river, or Floridac, ii. 418, 438.

Ulysses-haven, i. 273 ; ii. 22, 42.
I Underwood, i. 413.

Unes river, iii. roo, 107.

Unthank, i. 234, 394.

Upsetlington, i. 379 ; iii. 182.

Uras, i. 265, 266.

Urbans toun, i. 422.

Urchay river, ii. 536, 537.

Ure, James, of Schirgartoun, W.S.,
i- 351.

Urie, i. 36, 83, 86, 249, 251, 255; ii.
235-237, 240, 244. 256-259, 263, 557.

water, i. 5. 7,8, 17, 18.

Urlarust, ii. 558.

Urquhart (Urquhattin), i. 162, 209,
221, 223, 227, 229; ii. 172, 433, 524,

553-

castle, ii. 550.

of Cromartie, i. 214; ii. 413.

of Lathers and Cragston, ii. 238.

of Meldrum, i. 10.

col. Alex., of Newhall, i. 215.

James, of Byth, i. 42.

captain, i. 402, 403.

Urr, i. 395.

bridge, i. 395-397, 400.

water, i. 397, 398.

Urray, i. 209, 21a
Urus, i. 257, 258.

GENERAL INDEX

431

Urwhodin, ii. 550.
Usabrast, iii. 274.
Utershill, ii. 617; iii. 119.

Valay, iii. 292.

Valentia, ii. 371, 372.

Vallcyficld, i. 292, 294.

Vaucn of Shawes, i. 362.

Vaus, John, of Barnbarroch, ii. 80,

sir Patrick, ii. 77.

Vaxay, ii. 213 ; iii. 299.
Vayhastill loch, iii. 290.
Vealich island, ii. 601, 602.
Veitch, David, iii. 199.
Veliche, iii. 267.
Veni^oun burn, iii. 133.
Vernick island, i. 337 ; ii. 566.
Verraik island, ii. 566.
Vic-Couill, iii. 293.
Vickeran, iii. 268,
Victoria, Fife, ii. 404.
Vigeanus, St., ii. 45.
Vijsk-Alyin, ii. 596.
Vo^rie, ii. 619; iii. 121.
Voime river, ii. 522.

Wadellaw, ii. 209.

Waine, ii. 38.

Wais, iii. 312.

Wakefield, iii. 145.

Walker, William, his description of the

parishes of Ochterless, TureflT, and

Fivie, i. 91.
Walkingshaw, ii. 206.

of that ilk, i. 425.

Walkmiln of Inver Canny, i. 104.
Walkmilton, i, 317.
Wallace of Craigie, ii. 202.

of HoUmstonn, W.S., i. 411.

of Johnstoun, ii. 206.

of Shewaltoun, i. 413.

James, minister of Kirkwall, i.

146, 150.

Samuel, ii. xiv, xix.

sir Thomas, of Craigie, i. 410, 411,

413-

sir Wallace, i. 271 ; ii. 51, 202.

tree in Tor wood, i. 333.

Wallach, St., i. 81.

kirk, i. 80.

Walls, Shetland, iii. 249.

or Waes, in Orkney, i. 172.

Walls, etc., which separated the Scots

from the provincials, ii. 336.
Wallwood, ii. 588.
Wallyford, ii. 619; iii. 121.
Walstoun, iii. 156.
Wamphray, i. 367, 372.

Wanlockhead, gold found at, iii. 35,

36. 41.
Wantonwalls, iii. 175.
Warbertoun, i. 264.
Warden of the Borders, iii. 159, 187.
Wardens Dykes, i. 385.
Wardhouse, i. 4.
Wardie castle, ii. 617 ; iii. xi8.
Wardill burn, iii. 132.
Wardlaw, sir Henry, i. 291.
Warembie (Warmanbie), i. 371.
Wares, i. 153.
Warristoun, ii. 616, 6x7; iii. 117,

118.
Warsdile, i. 157.
Warthill, i. 154.
Wartle, i. 5.

burn, i. 83.

Waster loch, iii. 84.
Water loch of Blackbarony, iii. 144.
Walemish, ii. 532, 584 ; iii. 282, 285.
Watersay, ii. 177, 529; iii. 287.
Waterside, i. 106; ii. 588.
Watertoun, i. 97, 426 ; ii. 207.

castle, i. 43.

Watson of Chapelton, ii. 200.

of Grange of Barrie, ii. 49.

-^— James, of Westertoune, i. 239.

minister of Cannesbay, i. 154..

Watstoun, ii. 612.

Watten, i. 151, 156-158, 161, 162, 170,

17Tj 179. 180; iii. 84, 86.
Wauchop, i. 387, 389-392.
Wauchopdail, ii. 355.
Wauchophead, iii. 136.
Wauchton, iii. 114.
Weardie castle. See Wardie.
Weather proverbs, ii. Ixix.
Weatheriie, iii. 179, 185.
Weaving in Dunfermline, i. 291.
Websters isle, iii. 275.
Wedderburne of Blackness, ii. 31.

of Easter Pourie, ii. 33.

of Omachie, iii. 245.

David, Aberdeen, ii. 473.

palace, iii. 181.

Weddersby, i. 297.

Weel, Simon, minister of Wachop^ i.

392.
Weelcleuch, iii. 178.
Weem, ii. 571, 598, 599.
Weems. See Wemyss.
Weir, iii. 306.
Well, iii. 162.
Well of the Woman's Hill, Aberdeen,

ii. 246.
Well a Kirk, i. 88.
Wellmuman, i. 54.
Well-path, iii. 201.

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GEOGHAPHICAL COLLECTIONS

Welltrces, ii 7, 17.

Wellwood, Heniy, of EastergeUit« L

291.292.
Welsh, John, minister, L 599.
Wemyss (Weems), i. 299 ; ii. 405, 406.

eari of, i. 127 ; ii. 406.

West Bams, L 376.

Odder, iL 622 ; iiL 123.

CodUes»ii 617-

Finkrig, it 535.

Wester Arboll, i. 215.

Balintoos, ii. 609-

Billie, L 103.

Braiclde, ii. 44.

Brockhill, iii. 183.

Brockland, iL 612.

Caise, iL 28.

Coadoun, iL 368 ; iii. 125.

Cool, i. 32.

Crichtoo, iL 619 ; iiL 121.

Drylay, iiL 1 18.

Frew, iL 609.

Gormock, ii. 572.

— Granton, iL 617 ; iii. 118.
Hallpcew, iii. 149.

Helmisdell, iiL 99.

Howden, ii. 615; iii. 115, 116.

— — Kessak, iL 554.

- — Kilpatrick, iL 193, 194.

Kirk, i. 3«5, 390. 393.

Lauriston, ii. 617.

Lenzie, ii. 192.

Limphoy, ii. 617 ; iiL 118.

Loch, L 177.

Mains, iiL 184.

Methie, iL 27.

Moristoun, iii. 184.

Moy, i. 229.

Ogle, i. 286, 287 ; iL 29.

Polder, L 340.

Raw, iiL 179.

Redery, iL 554.

Rind, L 127.

Seatoune, ii. 45-

Snodown, iii. 157.

Walkingshaw, ii. 202.

Westertoun of Blacklounans, i. 112.

Westfoord on the Tweed, i. 380.

West Forest, L 113.

Westhall, i. 6, 7, 18 ; ii. 33 ; iiL 246.

Westhill, L 371.

Westhouses, iiL 121.

West Loch, iii. 150.

West Moan, ii. 426, 559.

Westpanns, iii. 1 14.

Westquarter, i. 321, 323.

Westray, iii. xxiv, 11, 305.

West Restoun, iii. 183.

Westruther, iii. 173, 176, 179, 185.

Westseat, i. 36.

Westwater, L 391 ; ii. 39 ; iiL 146.
Westwood, iL 368.
Wctfoot, iii. 179.
Whdthope, iii. 165.
I WheUigs, L 157.
' Whelplaw water, iiL 174, 175.
\Miinrig, iii. 181.
Whislebeny, L 265.
I Whitadder, iiL 173, 179-182.
Whitanhead, L 190 192.
Whitebank (Quhitebank), L.361, 362 ;

iii. 139, 164.
White Cart river, L 423, 424; ii. 201-

208; iiL 126, 212.
Whitechester, iiL 182.
Whitecleuch, iiL 132, 181.
Whitecove, iii. 184.
Whitefeild, iiL 142, 146, 183.
. Whiteford, iL 202.
Whitehall, L 177.
Whttehaueh, i. 21 n, 392.
Whitehead, Thomas, i. 141.
Whitehill, i. 48, 59, 62, 74, 244, 31a,

369; ii. 619; iii. 120-132.
Whitehoase, i. 23 ; iii. 178.
Whitekirk, i. 374.
White Loch, ii. 572, 591 ; iiL 222.
White Loch of Myrton, iL 87 ; iii. 139.
Whiteloms, i. 33, 36.
\nute Moss, i. 384.
Whitenook, i. 395, 396.
I Whiterig, iii. 176, 183.
White Sark river, i. 366, 371, 372, 383.
Whiteshields, i. 390.
Whiteside, iii. 148.
Whitestain, i. 26a
Whitewall, i. 285 ; ii. 29.
Whitfoords of BJairqnhan, ii. 6.
Whitford, i. 142, 146.
Whithorn, iL 70, 72, 75, 81-88, 98,

100, 115, 116, 122, 124-126, 317,

346,355; "i- 127.129.
Whitlaw, iii. 1 14.

Whitmyres aUas New-parks, L 99, lOO.
Whitslaid, L 363, 364; ui. 136, 137^

152, 158, 162, 167.
Whitsome, i. 378 ; iiL 173, 178.
Whitesomebill, iii. 178.
Whittelbrae, iii. 167.
Whittinghame, iii. 1 14.
Whoying hill, iL 551.
Wick (Week, Wmcq), i. 151, 156,

158, 179; ii. 184* 185. 423, S32r

533 ; iiL 82, 84, 86.
Wick castle, i. 157 ; ii. 84 ; iii. 129.

water, L i6l, 179, 180.

Wicolworie, iL 189.
Wideford, i. 142.

GENERAL INDEX

4S3

Widick, i. 146.

Wiglon, ii. 6, 52, 57, 66-129, 605 ;

hi. 129; description of, by Agnew

and Dunbar, iii. 127.

bay, ii. 356.

fairs, ii. 73, lOi.

loch, iii. 129.

earl of, ii. 192, 193.

Wild Cats hill, i. 185.
Wilkhaven, i. 214.
William the spendthrift, ii. 423.
Williamhope, iii. 164.
Wiliiamlaw, iii. 139.
Williams Croce, iii. 140.
Williamson of Corsleti, ii. 2CX).

Niel, killed during a raid on

Thurso, iii. 85.

Williamston, i. 140.

Willouehby, lord, iii. 30.

Willox s description of Old Deer, i. 62.

^Vilson of Crogline, iii. 204.

Wilstoun, i. 264.

Winchart. ii. 599.

Windiehills, i. 238.

Windilaws, iii. 151, 183.

Windmill Knoll, ii. 475.

Windygowle, iii. 174.

Windyneil, iii. 55, 56.

Wine foord, i. 423.

Winged camp, ii. 360, 431.

Wingitt isle, iii. 282.

Winkston, iii. 151.

Wintermoor, iii. 151.

Wintoun, ii. 34; iii. 114.

Wirks, i. 178.

Wisebee, i. 372.

Wishach, i. 36.

Wishart of Commisher, ii. 47.

of Middleton, iii. 240.

- George, binhplace of, iii. 238.

John, advocat, ii. 28.

Wishaw house, i. 420.
Wishford, iii. 308.

Wolves, ii. 175' 425. 438, 559.
Womanhill, Aberdeen, ii. 246, 475,

481 ; iii. 54.
Wood of Bebegno, iii. 240.
David, minister of Graitney, i.

387.

John, minister of Thurso, i. 174.

sir John, of Bonnietoun, ii. 43-

47; iii. 247.

Woodenckuch, iii. 175.

Woodend, i. 140 ; in Fife, 302, 303.
Woodhall, i. 419; ii. 617; iii. 118,

134.
Woodhead, ii. 579; tii. 17$.

of Fetter Letter, i. 94.

Woodhill, ii. 49.
Woodhouse, i. 372; iii, 150.
Woodhouselee, ii. 617; iii. 119.
Wood side, i. 330; iL 202, 591.
Wool, price of, i. 248.
Woolie, iii. 137, 162.
Wool man-hill. See Womanhill.
Wo«lmet, ii. 618 ; iii. 120.
Woolstruther, iii. 179.
Wormiston, iii. 151.
Wrae, iii. 142, 151, 152.
Wright of Fascan, i. 419.
Wrights-houses, ii. 618; iii. 1x9.
Wuiay major, ii. 213.

minor, ii. 213.

Wynburghlaw loch, iii. 137.
Wyndhorn, iii. 116, 117.

Yair, i. 361 ; iii. 139, 140, 164.

Yaldowic, ii. 600.

Yarrow bridge, i. 359.

kirk, i. 357, 358, 360, 363 ; iii.

165.
water, i. 358, 359, 362, 367 ; iii.

138, 144, 164-166.
Yeaman of Dryburgh, ii. 34.
Yee water, i. 368.
Yell island, iii. 61.
Yellow Syick, i. 391.
Yeltland (Shetland), iii. xxiii.
Yerick island, i. 337.
Yester, i. 375.

lady, ii. 626.

York building company, i. 251.
Yorkstone, ii. 619; iii. 120.
Young, James, chaplain, i. 147.
Youngson, Alexander, i. 147.
Ythan, i. 38, 39, 42, 43» 97, 98, 426,

427 ; ii. 235, 238, 239, 249, 256-258,

312, 416 ; iii. 223.
Yuill, John, ii. 198.
Thomas, of Darlcith, ii. 198.

Zer, Marquis of, iii. 130.
Zetland, earls of, ii. 406.
Zey of Perto, iii. 130.
Zuill. See Yuill.

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